A measure for identifying substantial geographic concentrations
van Egeraat, Chris, Morgenroth, Edgar L.W.ORCID: 0000-0002-9442-0561, Kroes, Rutger, Curran, DeclanORCID: 0000-0003-0788-1210 and Gleeson, Justin
(2016)
A measure for identifying substantial geographic concentrations.
Papers in Regional Science, 97
(2).
pp. 2581-300.
ISSN 1056-8190
Regional industrial policy emphasizes the notion of building on existing
concentrations of competitive firms. A range of measures to identify such concentrations
has been put forward in the literature. These measures, however, do not identify
substantial concentrations which have the best potential for further development, tend to
concentrate on scale measured by employment, and are applied using data for pre-specified
administrative boundaries. This paper presents a new concentration index that identifies
substantial concentrations and utilizes information on both the number and size of plants. It
also proposes a method for generating relevant industry-specific spatial units.
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