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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Industry Clusters"”.
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Intra-Regional Economic Connectivity: The Role of Industry Clusters in Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide
… and circumstances under which county level industry clusters can be strengthened by connecting to regional clusters – networks of businesses, labor pools, etc., whose linkages cross local and even state jurisdictional boundaries. Specifically, this analysis examines how different types of …
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STUDY ON FINANCIAL SUPPORT EFFICIENCY FOR COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION BY LAB-GROWN DIAMOND INDUSTRY CLUSTERS IN CHINA
… studies by Chinese researchers on the diamond industry paid more attention to consumption, processing technology, policy support, and marketing and seldom identified problems in the development of the diamond industry from the perspective of industrial development. Little literature deals with …
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Analyzing Industry Clusters and Foundations of Regional Partnerships with Consideration of the I-29 Corridor Task Force in South Dakota
… the I-29 Corridor Task Force including analyzing industry clusters and foundations of regional partnerships in South Dakota. There were two primary objectives of this research. The first was to create cluster definitions and evaluate traded industry clusters in South Dakota and the I-29 Corridor …
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The influence of higher education on the national innovation system in Portugal
… the amount of collaboration between academia and industry in Portugal. Prior studies of locational effects have concluded that universities have a positive effect on the innovation output of the regions in which they are located. However, there is little understanding of how this locational effect …
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Strategic management and entrepreneurship as economic development tools
… trends like "brain drain," and access to industry clusters. However, certain entrepreneurial venture opportunities are preferable for rural economic development. Since supply chains are vital to business success, initial emphasis is placed on the biomass resource base to be transformed …
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New sustainable models of open innovation to accelerate technology development in cellular agriculture
… assessment efforts, require new models for industry collaboration. The Open-Innovation Network Map was used to prioritize key collaboration networks to address the translational challenges of cellular agriculture, and three in-depth case studies from open-source models, big-science …
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Resilience and recovery of creative SMEs: insights from Nigeria
The creative industry greatly aids innovation, cultural advancement, and global economic growth. Particularly in sub-sectors such as cinema, music, fashion, and digital media, creative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are vital to these contributions. However, the COVID-19 pandemic …
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Essays in Asset Pricing
… The evidence indicates that firms in the same industry with socially connected locations exhibit co-movement in fundamentals and stock returns that exceed those without socially connected locations. However, the stock returns reflect the location information with a lag. To exploit this lagged …
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Cluster planning and cluster strategy in regional economic development organizations
… practice has broken along similar lines. Clusters are understood as either a critically important object of analysis or an updated form of industrial targeting. This paper, which presents the findings from a national survey of regional economic development organizations in the US, shows …
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Tourism and the development of 'creative' urban areas: evidence from four non-central areas in London
… The present research explores the role creative industry clusters play in the development of urban tourism, aiming to enrich debates on urban tourism, creative clusters and urban form. The research pays particular attention to the role of creative production in the tourist experience, the …
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Recommendations for Economic Development in Guadalupe, CA
<p>It is recommended that the City of Guadalupe prepare and implement a small-scale business expansion and retention program using existing service providers in the area. This type of program model seems to hold the most potential for Guadalupe. A mixed-methods approach including in-depth cases …