Regional specialization and technological leapfrogging

Auteur :
AMITI, M.

Description :
The paper investigates circumstances where a region loses its technological leadership after some major technological breakthrough. Input-output linkages between firms in a Cournot upstream industry and a perfectly competitive downstream industry create forces for agglomeration in particular locations, driving up prices of immobile factors. A new technology that is incompatible with the old will not benefit from these linkages and so is more likely to be established in locations with little existing industry due to lower factor prices.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Journal of regional science, issn : 0022-4146, 2001, vol. 41, n°. 1, p. 149-172, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 21 ref.

Date :
2001

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, Amherst, MA, Regional Science Research Institute