Discovering Regional Competitive Advantage: Massachusetts High-Tech
A report which analyses the success of the region of Massachusetts trying to penetrate the region's surpsrising resilience and better understand regional specialization, growth and decline.
An historical database of high-tech companies is used to conduct regional technological mapping exercises. It seeks to advance both theoretical and empirical knowledge of regional competitive advantage along with a related set of concepts. These concepts include Marshallian externalities, regional technological capabilities, "self-sustaining clusters" and regional innovation systems. A set of regional competitive advantage indicators are used and for comparison purposes the focus extends to California's Silicon Valley.
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- This paper concentrates on reasons behind the success factors of the region of Massachusetts, particularly in their High-Tech cluster.
- mass-BestPaquinXie.pdf (255.24 KB)
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