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D62 - Externalities < D6 - Welfare Economics < D - Microeconomics, O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses < O1 - Economic Development < O - Economic Development, Technological... more
D62 - Externalities < D6 - Welfare Economics < D - Microeconomics, O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses < O1 - Economic Development < O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth, R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and ...
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ABSTRACT De evolutionaire economie biedt in potentie een veelomvattend raamwerk om de verschillende facetten van de hedendaagse kenniseconomie te begrijpen. Dit artikel bespreekt eerst de kern van evolutionaire economie en de... more
ABSTRACT De evolutionaire economie biedt in potentie een veelomvattend raamwerk om de verschillende facetten van de hedendaagse kenniseconomie te begrijpen. Dit artikel bespreekt eerst de kern van evolutionaire economie en de toepas-singen op het gebied van bedrijfsstrategie, industriële organisatie en groeithe-orie. Vervolgens wordt uitgewerkt hoe evolutionaire economie kan worden ge-bruikt voor de bestudering van de evolutie van kennis en de rol van kennis in de economie. Er wordt ingegaan op vragen als: wat is de evolutionaire oor-sprong van nieuwe kennis? Wat is de rol van sociale netwerken in de ontwikke-ling en verspreiding van kennis? En: waarom ontstaan bepaalde doorbraken in het denken in bepaalde steden van de wereld? 1 Inleiding Mijn leerstoel beslaat het vakgebied "economie van innovatie". In dit vakgebied be-studeren we de determinanten van innovatie en de effecten van innovatie op de economie. Met innovatie wordt hier bedoeld de succesvolle toepassing van een uit-vinding in een nieuw product, proces en dienst. Ik heb ervoor gekozen om het vakgebied te benaderen vanuit de evolutionaire economie. Deze theorie heeft zich de laatste dertig jaar ontwikkeld tot een coherent raamwerk om innovatie te bestuderen. In mijn rede zal ik eerst een korte inleiding geven op de evolutionaire economie. Hierna wil ik specifiek ingaan op ons eigen onderzoeksprogramma dat zich toespitst op het thema "kenniseconomie". De groot-ste uitdaging zal zijn om tot een evolutionaire theorie van kennisproductie te ko-men. Ik zal daartoe enkele uitgangspunten en onderzoeksvragen formuleren.
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ABSTRACT We compare the industrial dynamics in the core, semi-periphery and periphery in The Netherlands in terms of firm entry-exit, size, growth and sectoral location patterns. The contribution of our work is to provide the first... more
ABSTRACT We compare the industrial dynamics in the core, semi-periphery and periphery in The Netherlands in terms of firm entry-exit, size, growth and sectoral location patterns. The contribution of our work is to provide the first comprehensive study on spatial differentiation in industrial dynamics for all firm sizes and all sectors, including services. We find that at the aggregate level the spatial pattern of industrial dynamics is consistent with the spatial product lifecycle thesis: entry and exit rates are highest in the core and lowest in the periphery, while the share of persistently growing firms is higher in the periphery than in the core. Disaggregating the analysis to the sectoral level following the Pavitt-Miozzo-Soete taxonomy, findings are less robust. Finally, sectoral location patterns are largely consistent with the spatial product lifecycle model: Fordist sectors are over-represented in the periphery, while sectors associated with the ICT paradigm are over-represented in the core, with the notable exception of science-based manufacturing.
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ABSTRACT Castaldi C., Frenken K. and Los B. Related variety, unrelated variety and technological breakthroughs: an analysis of US state-level patenting, Regional Studies. This paper investigates how variety affects the innovation output... more
ABSTRACT Castaldi C., Frenken K. and Los B. Related variety, unrelated variety and technological breakthroughs: an analysis of US state-level patenting, Regional Studies. This paper investigates how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant innovation, it is expected that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new technology. However, it is also expected that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often stems from connecting previously unrelated technologies opening up whole new functionalities and applications. Using patent data for US states in the period 1977–99 and associated citation data, evidence is found for both hypotheses. This study thus sheds a new and critical light on the related variety hypothesis in economic geography.
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ABSTRACT We propose a new theory of late mover advantage where new entrants can leapfrog incumbents through introducing new functionality of an existing technology. Since first mover firms did not take into account new functionalities... more
ABSTRACT We propose a new theory of late mover advantage where new entrants can leapfrog incumbents through introducing new functionality of an existing technology. Since first mover firms did not take into account new functionalities discovered after they entered, they limited their search on older functionalities and find it difficult to optimize functionalities once discovered later on. Late movers, in contrast, do not suffer from such technological irreversibilities, since they only start searching once all functionalities are known. Based on an agent-based model representing the innovation process of a complex technological artifact with a growing number of functionalities, we can conclude that, a first mover disadvantage can appear, particularly when the technology in question is large and complex, as for example in the case of current key technologies such as ICT, energy and mobility systems.
... November. Caniels. MCJ, and HA Romijn (2003),'What drives innovativeness inindustrial clusters? Transcending the debate', paper presented at the Regional Studies Asso-ciation conference, Pisa: 12-15 April. Cohen, WM... more
... November. Caniels. MCJ, and HA Romijn (2003),'What drives innovativeness inindustrial clusters? Transcending the debate', paper presented at the Regional Studies Asso-ciation conference, Pisa: 12-15 April. Cohen, WM ...
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ABSTRACT It is customary to define economic geography as a discipline that deals with the uneven distribution of economic activity across space. From a historical perspective, stochastic growth models are of particular use (Simon 1955).... more
ABSTRACT It is customary to define economic geography as a discipline that deals with the uneven distribution of economic activity across space. From a historical perspective, stochastic growth models are of particular use (Simon 1955). Such models explain the current distribution of activities from the dynamics of the long historical process that has produced these patterns. This approach might also be labelled “evolutionary economic geography” (Boschma and Frenken 2006), referring to the evolutionary economics tradition, since stochastic growth models account for path dependence in which each event changes the probability of a next event to occur (Arthur 1989; David 1985). In geography, stochastic models of urban growth have a long intellectual history. In particular, The Simon model of the Zipf's rank-size rule is still regarded as one of the canonical models of urban size distribution (Batty 2005). A shortcoming of these urban growth models is that they take spatial entities as the unit of analysis. Since spatial entities are not behavioural entities, the explanation of urban growth in such models is not grounded in the micro-behaviour of agents. What is more, the delineation of spatial entities is a notoriously difficult exercise. Organizational units are less problematic, because these are the agents of change and relatively easy, though by no means trivial, to delineate. More recently, some of the urban growth models have explicit micro-foundations, including neoclassical models (Duranton and Puga 2004) and agent-based models (Batty 2005).
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Business-to-consumer (b2c) e-commerce can be regarded as a disruptive process innovation that can make existing business models obsolete. B2c e-commerce provides retailers the possibility of a new service concept, new client interface and... more
Business-to-consumer (b2c) e-commerce can be regarded as a disruptive process innovation that can make existing business models obsolete. B2c e-commerce provides retailers the possibility of a new service concept, new client interface and even delivery system. The history of retailing is replete of such innovations, like the introduction of department stores, mail order etcetera. It is only recently that researchers
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... The determinants of agglomeration. Journal of Urban Economics 59: 191-229. Van Oort, FG (2002). Agglomeration, Economic Growth and Innovation. Tinbergen Institute Research Series, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Van Oort, FG (2003). Urban... more
... The determinants of agglomeration. Journal of Urban Economics 59: 191-229. Van Oort, FG (2002). Agglomeration, Economic Growth and Innovation. Tinbergen Institute Research Series, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Van Oort, FG (2003). Urban Growth and Innovation. ...
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KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication The Co-Evolution of Technical and Market Developments Modeled in Terms... (1996). Pagina-navigatie: Main. ...
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ABSTRACT We present a systematic review of seven threshold models of technological transitions from physics, biology, economics and sociology. The very same phenomenon of a technological transition can be explained by very different... more
ABSTRACT We present a systematic review of seven threshold models of technological transitions from physics, biology, economics and sociology. The very same phenomenon of a technological transition can be explained by very different logics, ranging from economic explanations based on price, performance and increasing returns to alternative explanations based on word-of-mouth recommendation, convergence of expectations, or social mimicking behaviour. Our review serves as a menu for future modelling exercises that can take one or more elementary transition models as a basis, and extend these model to fit more specific sectoral, technological or territorial contexts.
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We propose an evolutionary perspective on the geography of network formation that is grounded in a dynamic proximity framework. In doing so, we root the proximity concept in an evolutionary approach to the geography of innovation... more
We propose an evolutionary perspective on the geography of network formation that is grounded in a dynamic proximity framework. In doing so, we root the proximity concept in an evolutionary approach to the geography of innovation networks. We discuss three topics. The first topic focuses on explaining the structure of networks. The second topic concentrates on explaining the effects of
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ABSTRACT We review the literature on clusters and their effects on industrial dynamics as well on various lifecycle dynamics underlying the process of cluster formation and cluster dynamics. The review shows that there is little evidence... more
ABSTRACT We review the literature on clusters and their effects on industrial dynamics as well on various lifecycle dynamics underlying the process of cluster formation and cluster dynamics. The review shows that there is little evidence that clusters enhance firm growth and survival. In the absence of localization economies, the emergence of clusters is best understood as an evolutionary process of capability transmission between parents firms and their spinoffs. We discuss various future research avenues and call for theorising based on firm heterogeneity as well as empirical research based on common methodological standards.
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One of the major transitions in recent scientific research is the rise of network theory motivating a variety∈dexvariety of new research programmes in and across various disciplines. Economic geography∈dexgeography has been no exception.... more
One of the major transitions in recent scientific research is the rise of network theory motivating a variety∈dexvariety of new research programmes in and across various disciplines. Economic geography∈dexgeography has been no exception. The work on networks in economic geography can be divided into two types of research. First, there are studies on inter-firm networks and their impact on firm
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Within the evolutionary economic geography framework, the role of institutions deserves more explicit attention. We argue that territorial institutions are to be viewed as orthogonal to organizational routines since each territory is... more
Within the evolutionary economic geography framework, the role of institutions deserves more explicit attention. We argue that territorial institutions are to be viewed as orthogonal to organizational routines since each territory is characterized by a variety of routines and a single firm can apply its routines in different territorial contexts. It is therefore meaningful to distinguish between institutional economic geography