英文摘要 |
This study proposes a model to identify and analyze the horizontal spatial clustering of industries (HSCI). The proposed model offers the following two advantages: (1) It can avoid the problems that arise when space units are too small to tell the geographic proximity or too large to overestimate the clustering boundary. (2) It can not only identify the HSCI formed by different economic characteristics, but can also analyze the importance of different spatial locations and structures in a specific HSCI by performing both macro- and micro- level analyses. Based on the empirical analysis, this study yields five important findings: (1) The manufacturing industries in Taiwan are horizontally highly clustered (concentrated and agglomerated) or concentrated. The concentrated manufacturing industries mostly belong to spatial concentrations in one county but to spatial dispersions between different counties. (2) Large-scale manufacturing industries exhibit spatial concentration, while small- and medium- scale industries exhibit spatial agglomeration. (3) The central areas of HSCI have exhibited stable development compared to the peripheral areas, and show outward diffusion. (4) The results also demonstrate that manufacturing industries in Taiwan are moving toward the spatial dispersion of intra-industries and spatial clustering of inter-industries between 1991-2001. Most manufacturing industries cluster at the metropolitan scale, which shows the key role played by metropolitan cities in this process. (5) The manufacturing industries moved from metropolitan core cities toward metropolitan cities and edge counties between 1991-2001. |