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http://dx.doi.org/10.7165/wtr2014.3.3.122

Knowledge Spillover Effects on Agglomerations of Environment-related Industries  

Yamashita, Jun (Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University)
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World Technopolis Review / v.3, no.3, 2014 , pp. 122-138 More about this Journal
Abstract
The number of environment-related technologies has increased remarkably over the past two decades, as has the public's interest in effective resource use and ways to reduce the effects of global warming. Industries that are based on environment-related technologies are thus growing rapidly. Previous studies revealed that externalities derived from the population concentration in urban areas positively affect agglomerations of high-tech industries. Such externalities have been named the "knowledge spillover effect". The purposes of the present paper are to (1) give a thumbnail sketch of the locations of environment-related industries around the world, using the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development environment-related patent statistics, and (2) explicate the effects of the Marshall-Arrow-Romer (MAR) and Jacobs externalities, which result from population concentrations in urban areas, on the agglomeration of environment-related industries in Sweden. The analysis revealed that environment-related industries are located chiefly in urban areas across the globe, and that only the MAR externalities influenced positively on the agglomeration of these industries in Sweden.
Keywords
innovation; environment-related industry; externalities; knowledge spillover effects; OECD patent statistics;
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