Analysis of clusters in Andalusia
Cluster analysis has become a popular instrument in determining the
innovativeness and competitive power of national and regional economies. A wide
variety of methods have been employed by researchers to identify the key industrial
clusters in a regional economy. This paper reports the results of practicable
methodologies for identifying aggregate economic clusters so-called megaclusters
in Andalusia, using the last available input output data (year 2000). The
first method used, based in graph theory, classifies sectors according to substantial
mutual dependency through their deliveries and purchases. The second one, based
on the application of principal components to the input-output table, provide clusters
according to the similarity of the intermediate purchases and/or the intermediate
sales structures.
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