Regional employment growth, shocks and regional industrial resilience: A quantitative analysis of the Danish ICT sector

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Abstract

The resilience of regional industries to economic shocks has gained a lot of attention in evolutionary economic geography recently. This paper uses a novel quantitative approach to investigate the regional industrial resilience of the Danish ICT sector to the shock following the burst of the dot-com bubble. It is shown that regions characterised by small and young ICT service companies were more adaptable and grew more than others, while diversity and urbanisation increased the sensitivity to the business cycle after the shock. Different types of resilient regions are found: adaptively resilient, rigidly resilient, entrepreneurially resilient and non-resilient regions.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherSocial Science Electronic Publishing, Inc
Number of pages27
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
SeriesSocial Science Research Network Working Paper Series

Bibliographical note

This is a draft version. A revised version is published in Regional Studies. Please cite as: Jacob R. Holm & Christian R. Østergaard (2015) Regional Employment Growth, Shocks and Regional Industrial Resilience: A Quantitative Analysis of the Danish ICT Sector, Regional Studies, 49:1, 95-112, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2013.787159

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