The impact of urban concentration on countries? competitiveness and entrepreneurial performance
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Tartalom: http://dx.doi.org/10.15196/RS05106
Archívum: MTA Könyvtár
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Cím:
The impact of urban concentration on countries? competitiveness and entrepreneurial performance
Létrehozó:
Komlósi, Éva
Páger, Balázs
Dátum:
2015
Téma:
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography / gazdasági-társadalmi földrajz
H Social Sciences (General) / társadalomtudomány általában
Tartalmi leírás:
This paper aims to elaborate the role of Jacobs-type of agglomeration effects on countries?
competitiveness and entrepreneurial performance. Our research allows for a better
understanding of the relationship that exists between a country?s urban system,
characterized by spatial agglomeration (concentration) or deglomeration (deconcentration)
processes, and its competitiveness and entrepreneurial performance.
Urbanization economies refer to considerable cost savings generated through the
locating together of people, firms and organizations across different industries. It has
recently become an axiom that the better performance of global cities (as they are important
nodes of innovation and creativity) is derived from agglomeration effects. This general
assumption follows that the more concentrated an urban system of a country, the more
competitive and better its entrepreneurial performance. Even though this notion has gained
quick and ardent acceptance from practitioners, the related literature shows contradictory
results;this has induced a heated debate in academic circles, because it has raised serious
doubts about the ?bigger is better? theory. We hope to contribute to this debate with our
detailed analysis.
To understand the impact of urban concentration, we selected 70 countries and
calculated the so-called ROXY Index measuring the degree of agglomeration or
deglomeration in their urban systems. To exemplify country-level competitiveness, we
applied the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) while the Global Entrepreneurship and
Development Index (GEDI) was used to demonstrate country level entrepreneurial
performance. Using these indexes correlation and cluster analysis were designed to obtain
understanding of the relationship between them.
Our analysis indicates that as urban concentration initially increases competitiveness,
entrepreneurial performance also increases, but at a decreasing rate. Both of them
eventually reaches a maximum, and then after a certain point decrease with further
concentration. Therefore, the curve for this relationship is non-linear and folds back. This
indicates that over- or under-concentration of the population within an urban system does
not necessarily result in a better outcome. However, we should consider that a high
concentration of population is only one important factor for competitiveness and
entrepreneurial performance while other effects may exist
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Article
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Azonosító:
Komlósi, Éva and Páger, Balázs (2015) The impact of urban concentration on countries? competitiveness and entrepreneurial performance. Regional Statistics : journal of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, 5 (1). pp. 97-120. ISSN 2063-9538 ; Online: 2064-8243
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