Author, as appears in the article.: Pablo-Martí F; Arauzo-Carod JM

Department: Economia

URV's Author/s: Arauzo Carod, Josep Maria

Keywords: Science and technology parks Network analysis Microgeographic data Location Localization Level Industrial clusters Identification Firm location Firm growth Clusters

Abstract: © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. The aim of this paper is to analyse co-location patterns of manufactures and service industries at a microgeographic level using Spanish data from the Mercantile Register. Our approach allows us to analyse joint-location and co-location patterns of firms in different industries, and to overcome previous technical constraints in this type of analyses, partially thanks to using homogeneous cells instead of administrative units. This paper contributes to the empirical literature on industry location by developing a multisectorial co-location index computed by comparing differences between observed data about firms’ location and randomly generated data. Multisectorial relationships are analyzed by transposing bilateral relations onto an n-dimensional space. Our results show that dispersed industries tend to locate jointly and that industries with lower joint-location patterns have spatial structures similar to those obtained through input–output relationships, suggesting weak role of co-location patterns as interindustry linkages are not the main location determinants.

Thematic Areas: Economics and econometrics Economics Ciencias sociales Business and international management

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 1860711X

Author's mail: josepmaria.arauzo@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-3801-223X

Record's date: 2023-02-18

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Link to the original source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11403-018-0225-8

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Journal Of Economic Interaction And Coordination. 15 (2): 441-470

APA: Pablo-Martí F; Arauzo-Carod JM (2020). Spatial distribution of economic activities: a network approach. Journal Of Economic Interaction And Coordination, 15(2), 441-470. DOI: 10.1007/s11403-018-0225-8

Article's DOI: 10.1007/s11403-018-0225-8

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2020

Publication Type: Journal Publications