The emergence of new technology-based sectors at the regional level : a proximity-based analysis of nanotechnology

By Alessandra Colombelli, Jackie Krafft, Francesco Quatraro.  Dipartimento di Sistemi di Produzione ed Economia del‟Azienda, olitecnico di & University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and CNRS-GREDEG

This paper analyzes the emergence of new technology-based sectors at the regional level and focus on the specific case of nanotechnology as representative of an industry based on a technology still in infancy whose evolution can be reliably traced on the basis of filed patent submissions. The authors implement a methodological framework based on the „product-space…

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