Collaborative Research: The Clustering of U.S. Business Enterprises in the 1990s

合作研究：20世纪90年代美国企业的集群

• 批准号: 9986541
• 负责人: Edward Feser
• 金额: $ 6.52万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-05-01 至 2003-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9986541&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Clustering; U.S.; Business

This project will utilize confidential enterprise-level data for the contiguous U.S. and point process modeling techniques to document basic trends in clustering of U.S. businesses between 1989 and 1999 (by sector, degree of technology intensity, size, etc.). The project will investigate whether enterprises cluster to take advantage of key externalities postulated in the scientific and policy literatures. In addition to a suite of descriptive spatial analysis techniques, the study uses two complementary methodologies, D-functions and spatial duration models, that employ case-control designs to isolate spillover effects from other factors influencing clustering. The study will explore whether clustering related to spillovers, at least in some industries or groups of industries, appears to be strengthening or weakening during the 1990s.A growing number of federal, state, and local economic development policy initiatives are premised on, or attempt to leverage, specific advantages enterprises gain from locating in close spatial proximity. Such policy initiatives include industry clusters, technology transfer, and business network programs. At the same time, other public policies and programs anticipate that, in the information age, telecommunications technologies make the geographic concentration of business establishments less necessary. The scientific and theoretical literature is undecided on whether geographic concentration is a less important strategic consideration for businesses today than in earlier industrial eras. This project will inform scientific and policy debates by providing important baseline empirical information about clustering in different U.S. sectors during the 1990s.

该项目将利用美国的机密企业级数据和点过程建模技术，记录1989年至1999年美国企业集群的基本趋势（按部门、技术密集度、规模等）。 该项目将调查企业是否通过集群利用科学和政策文献中假设的关键外部因素。 除了一套描述性的空间分析技术，该研究使用了两种互补的方法，D-功能和空间持续时间模型，采用病例对照设计，以隔离溢出效应从其他因素影响集群。 本研究将探讨与溢出效应相关的集群，至少在某些产业或产业群中，在20世纪90年代是加强还是减弱。越来越多的联邦、州和地方经济发展政策倡议都强调或试图利用企业从空间上紧密接近的定位中获得的特定优势。 这些政策举措包括产业集群、技术转让和商业网络计划。 与此同时，其他公共政策和计划预计，在信息时代，电信技术使商业机构的地理集中变得不那么必要。 科学和理论文献还没有确定地理集中是否是一个不那么重要的战略考虑今天的企业比以前的工业时代。 该项目将通过提供有关20世纪90年代美国不同部门集群的重要基线经验信息，为科学和政策辩论提供信息。