Van Egeraat, Chris (2006) Spatial concentration in the Irish pharmaceutical industry: the role of government intervention and agglomeration economies (NIRSA) Working Paper Series. No.28. Working Paper. NIRSA - National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis.

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Abstract

This paper examines the spatial pattern of the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland and in particular the drivers accounting for spatial concentration in the industry.1 Spatial concentration indexes indicate a particularly high level of spatial concentration in one of the industry’s sub-sectors, namely, drug substance production. This high level of concentration has been attributed to the operation of agglomeration advantages, notably localisation economies. Based on interview data and secondary sources, a detailed investigation of the spatial dynamics and location factors involved suggests that these advantages have played, at most, a relatively limited role and that the concentration of the industry in and near the two particular urban centres in question has largely been driven by government intervention, notably environmental and regional planning policy and the related spatially selective provision of well-serviced industrial sites and infrastructure.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Keywords:	Spatial; concentration; pharmaceutical; industry; Ireland; government intervention; agglomeration; economies; NIRSA
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
Item ID:	1165
Identification Number:	28
Depositing User:	NIRSA Editor
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2009 13:58
Publisher:	NIRSA - National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis
URI:	Organisation
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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