As part of a new blog series, we will be highlighting the excellent research produced by the City-REDI team since 2015, with the aim of creating an online searchable library. You can view this work by searching the blog with the relevant tag, either using the name of the author or the year of the publication. We are starting the series off with Dr. Max Nathan.
Max is Senior Birmingham Fellow (Regional Economic Development) at Birmingham Business School, and is a Deputy Director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. You can find out more about Max here.
Exploring Digital Technology Industry Clusters Using Administrative and Frontier Data – Dr. Max Nathan and Dr. Anna Russo
Chapter featured in L Schintler & Z Chen (eds), Big Data for Regional Science. Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy, Routledge, Oxford (August 2017).
Abstract:
Industrial clusters help firms and workers become more productive, so are of great interest to researchers and policymakers. However, exploring and analysing such clusters is challenging. Big data and data-driven approaches can help. We study the emerging digital sector using big data obtained from administrative datasets but also from data science routines to develop modelled firm variables and firms’ activities. These matched datasets allow us to have new insights on the importance of digital technology sectors in the UK, their structure and their co-location patterns.
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