6 June 2001
Athar ---
RE: Your request (appended below) for references on computational modelling
in the area of technology clusters
You might want to check out the list of annotated pointers to individual
researchers engaged in agent-based computational economics or related work at
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/research.htm
Four people who specialize specifically in issues relating to technology,
technological change, firm spatial location models, etc. are (in
alphabetical order)
Giorgio Fagiolo
Luigi Marengo
Roger McCain
Murat Yildizoglu
Although their work may not be in your precise research area (technology
clusters), they could probably give you good pointers to related work. You
might also want to check the work of some researchers in the area of
human/economic geography, in particular the work of Catherine Dibble at the
University of Maryland who is using spatial computational laboratories
(GeoGraphs) to study small-world network formation, spatial technology
improvements, etc. Her home page is also provided at the above site.
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Leigh
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>By Technology Clusters I mean 'geographic agglomeration of high
>technology firms' like in Silicon Valley and Route 128 in Boston. There
>has been quite a bit of theoretical and empirical work in the area of
>innovativeness of firms clustered spatially that points towards both
>supply and demand side effiiciencies as well as R&D and Knowledge
>Spillovers etc.
>
>I am interested in the policy question: That is: Is there a role for
>governments to try to 'cultivate' these clusters or should they be left
>to market forces and private interests? and if yes, what is the
>appropriate set of policy bundle? Many governments try to create such
>regions of technological specialization through a series of active
>policy interventions. There are quite a number of interesting studies
>out there as well. I have seen quite a bit of econometric literature on
>the subject. I was wondering if someone has tried to do simulation
>modeling in this area? ACE-type models? or some other kinds...[or if
>someone knows about others who might be working in this area]
>
>I'd be grateful for any help/guidance on that.
Leigh Tesfatsion Department of Economics
Tel: (515) 294-0138 Iowa State University
FAX: (515) 294-0221 Ames, Iowa 50011-1070
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