Sentence examples for geographic agglomeration from inspiring English sources

That the knowledge economy has an "inherent tendency" toward geographic agglomeration, as Moretti puts it, makes all of this more challenging, because "initial advantages matter, and the future depends heavily on the past".

We discuss the implications of our findings for the distribution of intra-industry profits, the geographic agglomeration of industries, the design of social networks within firms, and the modularization of technologies.

Three main lines of argument can then be delineated: first of all, the degree of cumulativeness of science and technologies and the respective roles of newcomers and incumbents in the industrial dynamics; second the knowledge dynamics in nanotechnologies, especially the linkages by science and technology and third the role of institutions (network, geographic agglomeration and job market).

Thus the geographic agglomeration acts as a kind of mask, preventing us from being able to pinpoint a customer's address, neighbourhood or village.

Also, each caller's geographic location was specified at the level of spatial units based on a geographic agglomeration of sub-regional switching facility groups (covering 49 km2 on average).

Coming from a business strategy approach (Porter 1998) to understand the determinants of competition, Porter and Ketels (2009) define clusters as "geographic agglomerations of companies, suppliers and service providers, and associated institutions in a particular field, linked by externalities and complementarities of various type" (2009 172).

Geographic coordinates for each agglomeration were also obtained that approximately reflected the geographical centroid of each agglomeration [ 4].

Cross-ICEMR comparisons of identified statistical associations can add to the significance of scientific findings through evidence demonstrating reproducibility of results in other geographic settings, or by allowing agglomeration of data for use in meta-analysis techniques.

To be representative of French population, data collected from 2005 Health Barometer have been weighted by number of eligible persons in the household (and by the number of landline phones in the household) and imputed from 1999 INSEE National Census data on gender, age, geographic area and size of agglomeration.

The epidemic midpoint, defined as the date when cumulative incidence reaches 50% of the cumulative total of the seasonal cases for 1 season, was determined for each season and reporting geographic unit (census metropolitan area/census agglomeration for seasonal influenza and participating province for the 2009 pandemic waves).

Figure 1 shows geographic boundaries of cities and rural agglomerations within wards in Mazandaran and Golestan provinces.