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T1 Industrial Agglomeration and Use of the Internet
A1 Chang, Chia-Lin
A1 McAleer, Michael
A1 Wu, Yu-Chieh
AB Taiwan has been hailed as a world leader in the development of global innovation and industrial clusters for the past decade. This paper investigates the effects of industrial agglomeration on the use of the internet and internet intensity for Taiwan manufacturing firms, and analyses whether the relationships between industrial agglomeration and total expenditure on internet usage for industries are substitutes or complements. The sample observations are based on 153,081 manufacturing plants, and covers 26 2-digit industry categories and 358 geographical townships in Taiwan. The Heckman selection model is used to adjust for sample selectivity for unobservable data for firms that use the internet. The empirical results from two-stage estimation show that: (1) for the industry overall, a higher degree of industrial agglomeration will not affect the probability that firms will use the internet, but will affect the total expenditure on internet usage; and (2) for 2-digit industries, industrial agglomeration generally decreases the total expenditure on internet usage, which suggests that industrial agglomeration and total expenditure on internet usage are substitutes.
SN 2341-2356
YR 2015
FD 2015-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/27514
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/27514
LA eng
NO For financial support, the first author wishes to thank the National Science Council, Taiwan, and the second author is grateful to the National Science Council, Taiwan and the Australian Research Council.
NO National Science Council, Taiwan
NO Australian Research Council
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025