Portugal: The territorial foundations of a vulnerable tertiarisation process

Ferrão, João; Domingues, Adriana Rodrigues

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“…The existing literature shows that KIBS are highly concentrated in metropolitan areas and, particularly, in capital cities. In Europe this is shown by numerous studies (Cavola and Martinelli, 1995;Daniels, 1995;Ferrao and Domingues, 1995;Illeris and Sjoholt, 1995;Navarro et al, 2009;Rubalcaba and Gago, 2003;Schamp, 1995;Tödtling and Traxler, 1995;Vence and González, 2005;2007). Nevertheless, despite the increasing process ¶ Corresponding author.…”

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Regional Concentration of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Europe

Deza

López

2014

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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This paper analyses the location patterns o f knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in Europe in line with the most recent literature. Our main contribution is to provide new evidence about the location patterns o f KIBS considering the European continent, asopposed to individual countries, as the unit o f analysis. We first present the concentration and specialisation patterns o f KIBS activities in Europe, including the variations that have occurred during the last few years. Second, we try to provide an explanation o f KIBS regional specialisation patterns on the basis of the factors identified by the literature. The results suggest that KIBS activities are highly geographically concentrated in Europe. In this respect, capital cities, which have increasingly emerged as strongly specialised locations in services, play a central role in geography o f KIBS. At the same time, there is also evidence o f a tendency o f sparse dispersal o f KIBS throughout European regions.Overall, our results reinforce the importance o f agglomeration externalities, market size, regional accessibility, regional knowledge base, and the institutional nature o f the regional capital city. Finally, regarding changes in KIBS regional specialisation, we find that these are largely associated to changes in regional GDP.A long-standing debate exists around the location patterns o f production activities and, in particular, about the location o f new and em erging production activities. The m ajority o f studies on these aspects have m ainly concentrated on m anufacturing rather than on service activities; how ever, for obvious reasons, the interest in the latter has increased over time. W ith this w ork, w e aim to investigate the location patterns o f know ledge-intensive business services (KIBS). These activities are o f critical im portance w ith respect to the recent dynam ics o f the production system , as m uch for its increasing volum e o f value added and em ploym ent as w ell as for its key function in the creation and diffusion o f know ledge and innovation to other activities. K IB S appears to be im portant not only for the industrial sector but also for the services or tertiary sector. Similarly, KIBS are relevant to both private and public com panies. Furtherm ore, specialised services provide a flow o f know ledge to their clients, and their functions allow the reduction o f risks and opportunity costs in the processes o f innovation, proportioning know ledge on different subjects such as governm ental regulation, standards, m arketing, engineering, and financing.The existing literature show s that KIBS are highly concentrated in m etropolitan areas and, particularly, in capital cities. In E urope this is show n by num erous studies (C avola and M artinelli

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Regional Concentration of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Europe

Deza

López

2014

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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“…The first, and unplanned, phase began in the 1950s and resulted from the improvement of road infrastructures that favoured a scattered pattern of distribution far from the consolidated city. This process was responsible for the establishment of factories in districts with low population densities that were often located near agricultural areas and which later encouraged a dispersed residential pattern and the development of multi-activities (industrial/agricultural) employing low-skilled and low-wage workers (Cardoso 1996;Ferrao and Domingues 1995). Beginning in the 1980s, the second phase was promoted by the development of economic policies that sought to promote the development of industrial areas.…”

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Spaces of inequality: It’s not differentiation, it is inequality! A socio-spatial analysis of the City of Porto

Alves

2016

Portuguese Journal of Social Science

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“…Tertiarization can be defined as the predominant result of the major socio-economic changes, with an extremely visible impact at the level of economies that undergone transition processes (Ferrao and Domingues 1995;Peneder et al 2003;Cuadrado-Roura et al 2003;Hutton 2004;Sanchez-Moral et al 2008;Genaro and Melchor 2010). Deindustrialization and tertiarization are two economic processes that interact, with the former preceding the latter and that in time have effects on the structure of economic life (Graham and Spence 1995;Montresor and Marzetti 2011).…”

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Structural dynamics of tertiary activities in industrial parks in Bucharest, Romania

Cercleux

Peptenatu

Merciu

2015

AGS

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The study is an analysis of tertiarization in Bucharest, a process that tends to become dominant inside an economic system that has faced the hardships of transition and reorganization. The study deals with tertiarization inside the industrial parks in the capital city, in close connection with deindustrialization and industrial delocalization. The study highlights the forms tertiarization has taken inside those areas, former industrial platforms of the utmost importance for the industry of the Communist era. The trends in the evolution of tertiarization are analyzed in comparison as well as from the perspective of the evolution of the companies inside the three industrial parks; in addition, two scenarios for the future course of tertiarization are included.

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Portugal: The territorial foundations of a vulnerable tertiarisation process

Cited by 7 publications

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Regional Concentration of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Europe

Regional Concentration of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Europe

Spaces of inequality: It’s not differentiation, it is inequality! A socio-spatial analysis of the City of Porto

Structural dynamics of tertiary activities in industrial parks in Bucharest, Romania

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