Agent-Based Models of Industrial Clusters and Districts

Guido Fioretti

Urban/Regional from EconWPA

Abstract: Agent-based models, an instance of the wider class of connectionist models, allow bottom-up simulations of organizations constituted byu a large number of interacting parts. Thus, geogrfaphical clusters of competing or collaborating firms constitute an obvious field of application. This contribution explains what agent-based models are, reviews applications in the field of industrial clusters and focuses on a simulator of infra- and inter-firm communications.

Keywords: Agent-based models; industrial clusters; industrial districts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-cmp, nep-geo and nep-tid
Date: 2005-04-28
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 22. Forthcoming in F. Columbus (Ed.), 'Contemporary Issues in Urban and Regional Economics'. Nova Science Publishers.
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