Studies on foreign direct investment locations in China have been conducted mainly at interregional and interprovincial scales, and little attention has been paid to the intraurban scale where location decisions of foreign firms can differ from domestic firms. This article explores the intraurban locations of information and communication technology (ICT) firms in Suzhou, a city experiencing ra...

This paper is part of a broader research that aims at understanding the industrial development (and innovation) processes in less developed countries, and the way in which their different paths affect growth and the capability to compete, focusing on local production (innovation) systems. In the present contribution we draw from this general framework and present a model of production process, ...

This paper contributes with two new findings to the literature on how universities contribute to industrial development. First, it argues and substantiates quantitatively through logistic regression models that introduction of academically skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms. Second, it argues and substan...

This paper considers the evolution of regional policy in the United Kingdom in general, and the particular role of high technology new firms in creating industrial growth at national levels. Following a brief discussion of the major stages of industrial development in the United Kingdom the changing geographical impact of high technology small firms is considered, It is observed that, following...

The local formation, and benefits, of industrial clusters have received considerable research attention during the past decade. In some extreme versions, clusters are hailed as a universal panacea for local and regional development because of their alleged greater propensity to reduce transaction costs, to promote inter-firm learning, innovation, and knowledge transfer and, as a result, to incr...

This paper presents a novel method to explore the relationship between dynamic mergers and evolution of industrial competition by introducing complex network tool. Taking the beer industry of China as an example, we establish Markets-Firms bipartite time series networks, weighted Markets-Firms time series networks and industrial competition time series networks by using the data from 1992 to 20...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between economic growth and industrial pollution emissions in China using data for 112 major cities between 2001 and 2004. Using disaggregated data we separate FDI inflows from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan from those of other foreign economies. We examine four industrial water pollution indicators (wastewater, chemical oxygen demand, hexavalent chrom...

Air pollution in industrial cities with emissions from firms is a growing problem in India. Durgapur, one of the growing industrial cities in eastern India, covering a host of industries, suffers from similar problems. The paper estimates the marginal abatement cost of air pollution of industries in Durgapur, West Bengal. We model the technology of a firm with output-distance function. Here the...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship that occurs among network technologies and localised industrial networks of firms such as industrial districts. Industrial districts (IDs) are a typical Italian industrial feature and can be defined as regional hyper-networks, that is networks of inter-organizational networks located in a defined territory. These networks are multidimensi...

The literature on industrial districts (also referred to as business clusters) has grown out of recognition that spatial proximity among firms supports the formation and exchange of knowledge within an industry and is therefore a source of competitive advantage. While such a ‘territorial’ perspective on interfirm relationships is valuable in highlighting the informal means through which firms c...