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Industrial Location

Industrial Location is a subfield of location theory and economic geography that examines how and why industrial production activities are spatially sited across regions, focusing on firms’ locational choices in relation to transport costs, labor and input availability, agglomeration economies, and other regional attributes.

7.6K

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510.9K

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10.8K

Authors

2.9K

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2017–2026

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7.6K

Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations

Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg, Rebecca Henderson · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1993 · 7.8K citations · Full text

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Clusters and the new economics of competition.

Michael E. Porter · PubMed · 1999 · 4.6K citations · Full text

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Location, Competition, and Economic Development: Local Clusters in a Global Economy

Michael E. Porter · Economic Development Quarterly · 2000 · 4.4K citations

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Regional advantage: culture and competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128

Choice Reviews Online · 1994 · 4.3K citations

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Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets

Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · Journal of Political Economy · 2019 · 3.5K citations

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Authors

10.8K

  1. AJ
    Allen J. Scott

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    35 publications · 4.3K citations

    27

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  2. AJ
    Anthony J. Venables

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    30 publications · 6.2K citations

    24

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  3. RS
    Richard Shearmur

    McGill University, Canada

    27 publications · 1.7K citations

    23

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  4. PM
    Philip McCann

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    29 publications · 2.9K citations

    22

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  5. MS
    Michael Storper

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    23 publications · 3K citations

    21

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Institutions

2.9K

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    56 h-index

    183 publications

    26.7K citations

  2. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    49 h-index

    146 publications

    16.1K citations

  3. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    42 h-index

    125 publications

    10.2K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    41 h-index

    75 publications

    12K citations

  5. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    39 h-index

    92 publications

    9.9K citations

  6. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    39 h-index

    73 publications

    7.7K citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    39 h-index

    108 publications

    6.5K citations

  8. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    38 h-index

    88 publications

    7.1K citations

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Venues

  1. Regional Studies

    393 publications · 27.3K citations

    85

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  2. Economic Geography

    EG · 182 publications · 19.4K citations

    66

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  3. Journal of Economic Geography

    138 publications · 12.9K citations

    61

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 294 publications · 11.4K citations

    57

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  5. Journal of Urban Economics

    95 publications · 8.6K citations

    53

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