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Rolando Vaz
Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies (REMIT), Department of Economics. Portucalense University, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 541, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3218-3975
Vol 33 No 3 (2024), Artigos, páxinas 1-24
DOI https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.33.3.8983
Recibido: 18-01-2023 Aceptado: 15-11-2023 Publicado: 16-05-2024
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Este traballo céntrase na relación entre a densidade rexional de empresas e o crecemento das empresas da industria téxtil e da confección portuguesa para investigar como inflúe a súa agrupación xeográfica no devandito crecemento. A pesar da concentración desta industria na rexión Norte de Portugal en só catro polos, os nosos resultados mostran que a localización das empresas no clúster non é relevante para o crecemento cando se considera a industria no seu conxunto. Con todo, a análise desagregado mostra que a industria da confección si presenta tanto externalidades de localización como efecto de localización cruzada, mentres que a fabricación téxtil non presenta ningún dos dous. Ademais, os nosos datos empíricos revelan que o crecemento das empresas situadas no clúster está positivamente correlacionado co financiamento externo. Este resultado suxire que a localización se converte nun sinal de solvencia para as empresas e, en concreto, isto podería axudar a explicar por que as empresas de fabricación téxtil localízanse no clúster. Estes resultados son relevantes para os empresarios e os responsables políticos portugueses, xa que pon en perigo a asignación óptima dos escasos recursos no clúster téxtil portugués.

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