Eduardo Jimenez‐Moro , Panagiotis Piperopoulos , Mario Kafouros , Alan Au Kai Ming
{"title":"Innovation dynamics and club convergence in innovation activity in China: A temporal perspective","authors":"Eduardo Jimenez‐Moro , Panagiotis Piperopoulos , Mario Kafouros , Alan Au Kai Ming","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12750","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12750","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the convergence of innovation activity across Chinese provinces and untangle how such activity has evolved between 1987 and 2020. Our study reveals which factors matter for innovation and how the significance and relative importance of different factors changed over time. To capture this evolution, we distinguish between three key time periods and identify the existence of temporal effects. We further find that depending on the time‐period, regional innovation activity in China has developed in at least three innovation convergence clubs. We offer useful insights, with theory and policy implications, of the roots of regional innovation convergence and the causes of geographical disparities in China's innovation activity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 4","pages":"Pages 791-817"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46429275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kyriakos Drivas , Claire Economidou , Ioannis Kaplanis , Maria Theano Tagaraki
{"title":"Examination of related diversification in laggard regions","authors":"Kyriakos Drivas , Claire Economidou , Ioannis Kaplanis , Maria Theano Tagaraki","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12752","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12752","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In regions of meagre technology and market activities, traditional innovation metrics (patents and trademarks filed at international offices) may provide limited insight of the mechanisms of regional diversification and therefore policies, including smart specialization. We argue that in such regions, innovation activity, of lower value, can become the seed needed to grow to innovation of international calibre. We provide support by examining both domestic and international patent and trademark activity for Greece's NUTS 3 regions during 2000–2016. We further implement the principle of relatedness and show that regions with related technology (market) capabilities are more likely to exhibit new technology (market) specializations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 4","pages":"Pages 851-870"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49086077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vinko Muštra , Blanka Škrabić Perić , Smiljana Pivčević
{"title":"Cultural heritage sites, tourism and regional economic resilience","authors":"Vinko Muštra , Blanka Škrabić Perić , Smiljana Pivčević","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12731","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper explores the role of tourism demand and cultural World Heritage Sites on the regional economic resilience among European Union countries. The results pinpoint to the importance of cultural World Heritage Sites in keeping the regional economic resilience. The results on tourism demand are not unambiguous—domestic tourist arrivals play a significantly positive role while inbound tourist arrivals negatively affect regional economic resilience. Cultural tourism, defined as the joint effect of tourism and cultural sites, decreases the negative effect of inbound tourism, pinpointing that the cultural sites play an essential role in attracting inbound tourists in the less prosperous periods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 3","pages":"Pages 465-483"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45661485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bangjuan Wang , Weisheng Mao , Junxian Piao , Chengliang Liu
{"title":"Does external linkage stimulate innovation capacity? The analysis based on “dual‐pipelines” framework","authors":"Bangjuan Wang , Weisheng Mao , Junxian Piao , Chengliang Liu","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12736","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12736","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing on “buzz‐and‐pipeline” theory, we develop a framework termed “dual‐pipelines” to discover how the local innovation capacity can benefit from transnational and domestic introduced technology. We find that the intensity of transnational and domestic patent introduction both have an inverted U‐shaped relationship with local innovation capacity. Also, the relatedness and similarity of domestic technology introduced are advantageous to local innovation. However, the transnational introduced technologies are only beneficial if they perform similarly to the local knowledge base while having no significant effect if merely showing relatedness. Finally, transnational and domestic technology introductions complement each other in promoting local innovation capacity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 3","pages":"Pages 613-634"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46663843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Border Effects on firm's productivity: The role of peripherality and territorial capital","authors":"Federico Fantechi , Ugo Fratesi","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12730","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Border effects have long been studied and are a central element of EU regional policies. While most literature takes a macroeconomic approach, this paper adopts a microeconomic one, studying the impact on firm productivity in border areas. The empirical analysis, on Italian land borders, employs a novel two‐phases double‐matching design, which considers firm‐level characteristics as well as the territorial capital of municipalities where they locate. Results suggest that border effects are not limited to territories close to the border but affect larger areas. Furthermore, they are significant and negative in urban areas, while they are insignificant in peripheral areas which are characterized by low accessibility and territorial capital endowment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 3","pages":"Pages 483-507"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47533265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial patterns of Cultural and Creative Industries: Creativity and filière behind concentration","authors":"Roberto Dellisanti","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12733","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12733","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spatial concentration of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) is not a new topic in academic research. However, the analysis of this phenomenon often neglects that CCIs behave differently, due to their heterogeneity. Building on the literature on CCIs' concentration, a novel classification of CCIs is presented based on two key dimensions: heterogeneous creativity and <em>filière</em>. CCIs spatial concentration is tested along these two dimensions, highlighting that the location determinants differ at their intersection. Results renew the interest on CCIs' clustering and define new perspectives for policy interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 3","pages":"Pages 533-565"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43688695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A holistic approach of the labour productivity slowdown in the regions of the European Union","authors":"Maria Tsiapa","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12734","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12734","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Productivity growth reflects the efficiency and the improvements in prosperity of economies. The productivity slowdown that has emerged in many advanced countries jeopardizes their economic potential and social cohesion. This paper attempts to analyse the complex problem of productivity and detect the culprits in the European Union's productivity slowdown. From a holistic viewpoint, the paper explores a multidimensional context of socio‐economic and institutional factors, as well as the existence of spillover effects through a regional‐aspect compound analysis. Studying the productivity slowdown of NUTS 2 regions for the period 2000–2019 the analysis discerns four categories of factors that lead to valuable policy implications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 3","pages":"Pages 507-532"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46296252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rodrigo García Arancibia , Pamela Llop , Mariel Lovatto
{"title":"Nonparametric prediction for univariate spatial data: Methods and applications","authors":"Rodrigo García Arancibia , Pamela Llop , Mariel Lovatto","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12735","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12735","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We introduce five nonparametric kriging‐type predictors for spatial data where only the variable of interest, without covariates, is recorded. The proposed methods seek to fully exploit the information contained in the spatial closeness and also in the similarity between neighbourhoods of the variable of interest. This is managed using different combinations of kernels (one or two kernels), and different combinations of distances (multiplicative and additive). The good performance of the proposed methods is shown via simulation studies and housing price prediction applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 3","pages":"Pages 635-673"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44846582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Pavlačka , Dominik Kaim , Krzysztof Ostafin , Jaroslav Burian
{"title":"Changes in spatial discontinuity in settlement patterns in the Czech‐Polish border area: A case study of Těšín Silesia","authors":"Daniel Pavlačka , Dominik Kaim , Krzysztof Ostafin , Jaroslav Burian","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12732","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12732","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper presents a discontinuity‐based analysis of the settlement pattern changes in the Czechia–Poland cross‐border historical region of Těšín Silesia. An approach based on a well‐known and popular method (regression discontinuity design) was applied to measure spatial discontinuity. To describe the spatiotemporal changes, a combination of spatial, statistical and cartographic methods was used. The observed differences have been developing for more than 150 years; at the start, this area belonged to the territory of one state, and later it was divided by a national border. The division of the region resulted in areas following different development trajectories.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 3","pages":"Pages 565-588"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48102441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}