Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44973 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
KIT Working Paper Series in Economics No. 18
Publisher: 
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON), Karlsruhe
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the role of nanotechnologies as a general purpose technology for regional development. Due to pervasiveness, nanotechnologies may be utilized in diverse applications thereby providing the basis for both localization and urbanization externalities. We carry out patent and publication analyses for the city state of Hamburg during the period 1990-2010. We find evidence that nanotechnologies are advanced in the context of regional knowledge bases and follow up prevailing specialization patterns. As nanotechnologies develop both industry specific and city specific externalities become effective leading to specialization deepening and specialization widening which both are functions of the increasing nano-knowledge base.
Subjects: 
general purpose technology
nanotechnology
specialization
diversification
Marshall-Jacobs controversy
patent and publication analysis
JEL: 
R11
O31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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