The authors use a point-pattern methodology to explore the detailed location patterns of UK manufacturing industries. In particular, they consider the location of entrants and exiters vs. continuing establishments, domestic- vs. foreign-owned, large vs. small, and affiliated vs. independent. Also examined is co-localisation between vertically-linked industries.
This University of Colorado report argues that Colorado could become a nanotechnology powerhouse by doubling the number of companies and boosting the number of employees involved in the industry in the next three years. The authors believe that by increasing the number of companies to 150, and the number of local nanotech workers to 400, Colorado could rank among the top ten nanotech states.
This article lays the theoretical foundation for R&D-manufacturing co-location. The authors provide a taxonomy of factors that influence the decision of companies to co-locate their manufacturing and R&D functions.
This paper studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data from a recent survey. the author obtains TFP measures by making use of firm-specific deflators for output and inputs.
This paper examines the role of private support institutions in determining small and medium enterprise (SME) growth and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It finds that SMEs in SSA get around market failures and lack of formal institutions by creating private governance systems in the form of long-term business relationships and tight, ethnically-based,
business networks.
This paper contains an uneven but parallel analysis of the automotive and precision instrument industries, and looks at the specific issues related to the role of SMEs in manufacturing in general. The authors conclude that in order to have a comprehensive view of the role that SMEs play in value chains attention should be paid to their innovative capacity but also to the way fruits of this capacity are shared along the value chain.
This report examines recent trends in manufactuing employment in seven states of the Great Lakes manufacturing belt and in the 25 manufacturing-dependent metropolitan areas in those states. Trends are compared with information on manufacturing output and on employment in the advanced service sector, consisting of the information, financial activities, and professional and businesss services industries. As with manufacturing, these industries both pay higher-than-average wages and generate export income for their home regions.
This paper analyzes the effects of the real value of the dollar on investment in US domestic manufacturing, using aggregate time-series data for 1973-2004. The econometric estimates reveal robust evidence for a negative effect of the dollar that is much larger than has been found in any previous study (and which is not sensitive to various alternative specifications). The results also suggest that the exchange rate affects investment mainly, although not exclusively, through the channel of financial or liquidity constraints, rather than by affecting the desired stock of capital.
The authors study the growth rates of 4-digit sectors in U.S. manufacturing. Two measures of size (value of shipments, value added) are considered, for each of the 38 years (1959-1996) of a sample of 458 4-digit sectors, drawn from the NBER Manufacturing Productivity database.
This paper studies the persistence of innovation and the dynamics of innovation output in Dutch manufacturing using firm data from three waves of the Community Innovation Surveys, pertaining to the periods 1994-1996, 1996-1998, and 1998-2000.