Antonio Fuster Olivares

• PhD. in Economics
• Associate Professor at University of Alicante

La crisis financiera y económica de 2008 y la actual crisis sanitaria y económica relacionada con el Covid-19 han convertido a la resiliencia en un concepto cada vez más presente en análisis económicos y en propuestas de política económica. En este trabajo el objetivo es aplicar el concepto de resiliencia al análisis de la evolución del sector indu...

The challenge for economies lies in boosting employment growth, not just by fostering entrepreneurship, but also by improving the growth potential of existing firms. Consequently, many studies have focused on assessing the dynamism of firms, and especially the capacity of high-growth firms (HGFs) to generate employment. This study aimed to identify...

In recent years, several contributions have been focused on a new sort of productive systems that share some characteristics with Marshallian industrial districts. These contributions have analysed the competitiveness of these new areas and how have been promoted by policy makers. In this line, the Marshallian concept of industrial district has bee...

Desde los años ochenta, la industria del juguete ha experimentado un continuo proceso de transformación en el que las empresas han puesto las bases que les han permitido sobrevivir frente a la competencia extranjera. Sin embargo, en los últimos años, el sector se enfrenta a una situación compleja, que exige la adopción de nuevas estrategias basadas...

Comunicación presentada en el XXXI Congreso de la Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, Alcalá de Henares, 17-18 de Noviembre de 2005 Para el estudio de la concentración industrial en España se han utilizado diversas técnicas cuantitativas que, sin embargo, han mostrado un bajo nivel de consistencia en los resultados obtenidos. Para solucionar e...

Comunicación presentada en IEHC 2006, XIV International Economic History Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 21 to 25 August 2006 La noción de “sistema productivo local” permite disponer de un concepto operativo a la hora de analizar sistemas territoriales de pequeñas empresas industriales lo que ha generado un incremento de los trabajos empíricos sobre e...

Comunicación presentada en 45th European Congress of the European Regional Science Association, Amsterdam, 23-27 August 2005 A range of quantitative techniques have been employed by researchers in economic geography and other social science disciplines to measure and, spatially, define agglomerations of industrial activity. However, the application...

Metropolitan areas concentrate the main share of population, production and consumption in OECD countries. They are likely to be the most important units for economic, social and environmental analysis as well as for the development of policy strategies. However, one of the main problems that occur when adopting metropolitan areas as units of analy...

En los últimos años ha despertado gran interés el estudio de procesos de reestructuración productiva, a los que están asociados importantes cambios espaciales que definen nuevas formas de organización del territorio. Uno de los espacios emergentes que ha centrado buena parte de las investigaciones se deriva de un proceso de difusión territorial de...

Este trabajo analiza las disparidades regionales asociadas con la nueva economía y el desarrollo de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. (TIC) en España. Para ello, se utilizan datos a escala regional sobre la nueva economía y se construye un indicador sintético que proporciona información acerca de la posición relativa de cada regi...

In the last two decades there have been significant spatial changes influenced by the industrial re-organization processes. And the studies made about these changes have defined new forms of territorial distribution. One of these new forms appears because of territorial diffusion of the economic activity due to a flexible decentralization process a...

There is no enough evidence about the effects of the new information and communication technologies (ICT) in Spain and how these ICT cause differences between regions. So, the aim of this work is to analyze the regional disparities relative to the new economy in Spain. In the first part of this work, we will review the literature about the concept...

The Technological Centers have been created with the aim of being a supplier of different R&D's activities and services for those entreprises with a lack of material and financial resources to develop by themselves an innovation process. In most cases, these enterprises are SME's (Small and Medium Enterprises) placed in the area of influence of eac...

The objective of this paper is to identify those areas of the Valencian Community, a Spanish region, that present a high dynamism and, so, can be considered as areas of change and innovation. These areas would have the best conditions for a higher development in the future than other areas. To achieve this objective, a database with information abo...

Comunicación presentada en 47th Congress of the European Regional Science Association, ERSA, Paris, August 29th – September 2nd 2007 The objective of this paper is to identify those areas of the Valencian Community, a Spanish region, that present a high dynamism and, so, can be considered as areas of change and innovation. These areas would have th...