Search for dissertations about: "industrial agglomeration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 37 swedish dissertations containing the words industrial agglomeration.

2. 1. Industrial Dynamics: A Multilevel Study of the Swedish IT Industry

   Author : Magnus Eriksson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; spin-off; start-up; imprinting; Sweden; information technology; organizational ecology; venture capital; industrial dynamics; industrial agglomeration; inertia;

   Abstract : The first Swedish information technology (IT) organizations were founded in the 1950s, but it was only in the early 1990s that the number of organizations in the IT industry started to grow. In the late 1990s, growth took off rapidly, peaking when the stock market bubble burst in March 2000. READ MORE

4. 2. Impact of Ash on the Properties of Fluidized Bed Materials

   Author : Robin Faust; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; ash interaction; layer formation; agglomeration; fluidized bed; catalytic tar removal; oxygen carrying; bed material;

   Abstract : The utilization of the fluidized bed technology offers the possibility of thermally converting a large variety of biogenic feedstocks. The characteristics of the bed material which is used in the process play a major role regarding the overall process performance. READ MORE

5. 3. Industrial Dynamics and Regional Structural Change : Geographical Perspectives on Economic Evolution

   Author : Martin Henning; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agglomeration externalities; industrial dynamics; Regional system; structural change; Sweden; industry life cycle; technology shift;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the process of economic transformation taking place in Sweden since the mid 1970s. Especially, it is concerned with how and why benefits that firms and industries draw from regional co-location with other actors (agglomeration externalities) vary over stages of economic transformation. READ MORE

6. 4. Labour mobility and plant performance : The influence of proximity, relatedness and agglomeration

   Author : Rikard Eriksson; Urban Lindgren; Gunnar Malmberg; Andrés Rodríguez-Pose; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agglomeration economies; labour mobility; plant performance; geographical proximity; related variety; clusters; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; Economic geography; Ekonomisk geografi; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to shed new light on the theorizations discussing the economic benefits of geographical clustering in a space economy increasingly characterized by globalization processes. This is made possible through the employment of a plant-perspective and a focus on how the relative fixity and mobility of labour influence plant performance throughout the entire Swedish economy. READ MORE

7. 5. Essays on Industrial Development and Political Economy of Africa

   Author : Eyerusalem G. Siba; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agglomeration economies; African manufacturing; Credit constraints; Darfur; Ethiopia; Ethnic cleansing; Growth; Informal sector; New firms; Poverty trap; Prices; Productivity; Resource struggle; Returns to capital; Survival; Skills.;

   Abstract : Paper 1: Returns to Capital and Informality. We study the pattern of returns to capital in the formal and informal manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia. We use a rich panel dataset of manufacturing firms in the formal sector for the period 1996-2006 and two rounds of repeated cross-sectional data of the urban informal sector firms. READ MORE