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Spatial ICT Clusters in Sweden ? An Empirical Method to Identify a Necessary Condition for Existence

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The tendency of information and communication technology (ICT) industries to cluster spatially is well documented in the international literature. Sweden has been characterised of a rapid growth of most ICT industries during the 1990s. In this paper we examine the spatial clustering of ICT industries in Swedish functional regions and changes in the patterns of clustering during the period 1990-2001. To be defined as a region with an ICT cluster a region must exhibit a significant overrepresentation of both ICT plants and ICT employment given its size in terms of population. By using this method it is possible to identify macro, meso and micro clusters. We examine the life cycles of these clusters during the period 1990-2001 in terms of births, growth, decline and disappearance as well similarities and differences between the different clusters in terms of, for example, industrial composition and regional factor endowments. We also compare the development of the ICT sector in regions with ICT clusters with the development of the ICT sector in regions specialised in large scale ICT production and in regions specialised in small scale ICT entrepreneurship. Based upon the results we also formulate recommendations for ICT policies in different types of regions.

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  • Charlie Karlsson, 2003. "Spatial ICT Clusters in Sweden ? An Empirical Method to Identify a Necessary Condition for Existence," ERSA conference papers ersa03p222, European Regional Science Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa03p222
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    1. Burger, M.J. & van Oort, F.G. & van der Knaap, G.A., 2008. "A Treatise on the Geographical Scale of Agglomeration Externalities and the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem," ERIM Report Series Research in Management ERS-2008-076-ORG, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
    2. Mark J. O. Bagley, 2019. "Networks, geography and the survival of the firm," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 29(4), pages 1173-1209, September.
    3. Sam Tavassoli, 2011. "A Comparative Investigation of Firms' Innovative behaviors During Different Stages of the Cluster Life-Cycle (Cover study for PhD dissertation)," ERSA conference papers ersa10p1045, European Regional Science Association.
    4. Garri Raagmaa & Priit Tamm, 2004. "An emerging biomedical business in a low capitalised country," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(7), pages 943-960, June.

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    • L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General
    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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