Maryann P Feldman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maryann P Feldman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maryann P |
| FAMILY NAME | Feldman |
| SIGNATURE | FELDMAN M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
We're not in dreamland anymore: The consequences of community opioid use on local industrial composition
We estimate the effect of opioid use rates on local economic resilience through changes in industrial composition. We find regional opioid use rates adversely affect firm growth in general, with the greatest impact on small firms. Our results are robust to several identification strategies (Difference in Differences, Propensity Score Matching, and Instrumental Variables) and alternative empirical specifications. Our findings establish that local …
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: Ecosystem perspectives
evolutionary economic geography, entrepreneurial ecosystem, ecosystem emergence, industry cluster, regional economic change
We miss you George Bailey: The effect of local banking conditions on the county-level timing of the Great Recession
Community banks have a unique capacity to strengthen economic resilience by alleviating local firm credit constraints during economic downturns. We provide evidence that banking access and community bank market share affected both the county-level timing and duration of the Great Recession in the United States. Using the Cox Proportional Hazards and Heckman Selection models, we find that communities with a higher community bank market share are l…
Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary India
India is an exception to many so-called rules in social science. This chapter considers why accounts of long-term economic growth, which assume that either institutional quality or geography is a foundational driver of change, are confounded by India. Attention is directed instead to consistency of economic policymaking, competition between provinces, and the stability of underlying political settlements. The chapter also considers why India’s gr…
Crisis and Austerity in Action: Greece
The chapter addresses uneven prosperity in Europe, based on the geographically divergent outcome of the 2008 global financial and eurozone crisis. Austerity-induced recession has led to dramatic output and employment decline in Greece, raising questions about the causes of territorial economic vulnerability, or resilience. Metropolitan Athens, the hub of Greece’s economy, has suffered even more severe employment losses and unemployment, massive b…
Pursuing Equitable Economic Growth in the Global South
Economic growth is not an inherently equitable process. It has become clear that certain groups of society are more consistently capable of reaping the benefits of economic growth and that much of the interpersonal and territorial inequality that is especially pervasive in the Global South is attributable to the pursuit and achievement of economic growth in the absence of sufficient concern for notions of equity. This awareness has invigorated an…
Income Inequality and Growing Disparity: Spatial Patterns of Inequality and the Case of the USA
Deemed one of the major concerns of our time, income inequality has been on the rise for decades. While there is ample discussion and a vast body of knowledge already written on the subject, the focus of this chapter is on tracing the geography of rising inequality starting in the 1970s. An absence of support to maintain a middle class, an erosion of the value of wage labour, and stagnant minimum wages are a few of the many reasons for rising inc…
Inequality in Advanced Economies
Levels of economic inequality differ extensively when comparisons are made between nation states, although, worldwide, inequalities remain highest in the poorest countries. Yet now even some of the wealthiest nations have markedly high levels of income inequality. This chapter concentrates on illustrating this unprecedented, contemporary transformation in income inequalities towards greater geographical variation between affluent countries. In pa…
Immigration and the Politics of Skill
Skill has played a central role in immigration scholarship, most notably in a protracted debate over whether ‘unskilled’ immigrants threaten job security for less or moderately educated native-born workers. In recent years, scholars have re-examined whether immigrant workers, particularly those with limited formal education, are unskilled. Extending this further, the chapter argues that immigrants are not simply individuals that possess, acquire,…
The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography
The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography is the most comprehensive and significant statement about the value and potential of economic geography in 2017. Sixty-six leading economists and geographers from around the world investigate the rival theories and perspectives that have sustained the development of economic geography. The Handbook also focuses on linkages, including those between inequality, instability, and sustainability in the glo…
The Geography of the Creative Industries: Theoretical Stocktaking and Empirical Illustration
Economic geographers are increasingly interested in the creative industries because not only does this set of industries have increasing economic impact, but also because their complex interrelationships with societal factors and profound ongoing change make them useful for employing and examining theory on the geographical organization of economic activity. This chapter summarizes recent developments of the geography of the creative industries a…
Towards New Economic Geographies of Retail Globalization
Since the mid-to-late 1990s, retail globalization has intensified, and a growing multidisciplinary literature profiles these dynamics. This chapter provides a snapshot of current levels of retail globalization, before briefly reviewing the literature on the drivers and dynamics of retail globalization from the late 1990s onwards. The analysis then advances current understandings in two ways. Firstly, the evidence on the impacts of globalization i…
Heterodoxy as Orthodoxy: Prolegomenon for a Geographical Political Economy
For most geographers, thinking geographically about the economy means something very different than for mainstream/geographical economists: what is heterodox for the latter constitutes geographers’ orthodoxy. Nineteen propositions about geographical political economy demonstrate how thinking geographically disrupts core propositions about capitalism in mainstream economic theory. The spatiotemporality and relational nature of inter-sectoral commo…
Approximating Exogenous Variation in R&D: Evidence from the Kentucky and North Carolina SBIR State Match Programs
This paper exploits policy discontinuities at U.S. state borders to examine the effect of R&D investments on innovative projects. We examine the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) State Match program, which offers noncompetitive grants to federally awarded SBIR Phase I projects that are eligible to compete for Phase II. Results from SBIR activity (2002–2010) indicate heterogeneous treatment effects. Notably, the positive differential effec…
Carbon Markets: Resource Governance and Sustainable Valuation
Carbon markets open several important avenues of inquiry into resource governance designed to address problems like climate change. The discipline of economic geography is well situated to add insight. This chapter examines the underlying assumptions behind market-based governance, particularly the emphasis on controlling greenhouse gases through pricing. The pricing of externalities alone does not guarantee the material changes in energy use now…
Financialization of Everyday Life
This chapter identifies three key research themes for investigating the financialization of everyday life, whereby individual subjectivity, aspiration, and forms of conduct at the level of individuals and households are increasingly tied to financial structures and logics. The first theme analyses how new intermediaries of finance have increased the influence and pervasiveness of financial instruments and solutions in everyday life. The second ex…
Institutional change and network evolution: Explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region
Institutional change and network evolution: explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region. Regional Studies. This paper investigates how institutions impact tie formation, arguing that institutions can direct firm strategies towards exploration or towards exploitation. It translates these strategies into tie formations: explorative tie formation produces structural holes as a…
Institutional life within an entrepreneurial region
Institutions are often regarded as static and unchanging, portrayed as constraints on innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional economic change. We propose an alternative perspective in order to understand how entrepreneurs experience and engage with institutions in ways that shape and help advance their collective interests. Motivated by our own research on regional entrepreneurial development, we theorize institutions as lived and interpreted …
Isolated in the Lab: Examining Dissatisfaction with Postdoctoral Appointments
Dissatisfaction with postdoctoral appointments is associated with demographics, career goals, types of research, postdoc-advisor interaction, and program quality. Rather than a simple inverse relationship to dissatisfaction, the effect of program quality depends on the postdoc's autonomy to shape a research project, interaction with an advisor, and the advisor's commercialization-related activities
RKnowledge: The Spatial Diffusion and Adoption of rDNA Methods
Feldman M. P., Kogler D. F. and Rigby D. L. rKnowledge: the spatial diffusion and adoption of rDNA methods, Regional Studies. The 1980 patent granted to Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer for their development of rDNA technology played a critical role in the establishment of the modern biotechnology industry. From the birth of this general-purpose technology in the San Francisco Bay area, rDNA-related knowledge diffused across sectors and regions of…
Technological dynamics and social capability: US states and European nations
This article analyzes factors shaping technological capabilities in USA and European countries, and shows that the differences between the two continents in this respect are much smaller than commonly assumed. The analysis demonstrates a tendency toward convergence in technological capabilities for the sample as a whole between 1998 and 2008. The results indicate that social capabilities, such as well-developed public knowledge infrastructure, an…
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005, Paul E. Ceruzzi, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2008). 192 pp. US$29.95 (hbk). ISBN-13: 978 0 262 03374 9. I am inspired by Paul Ceruzzi's bo
Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation
Local Entrepreneurship in Context
Audretsch D. B., Falck O., Feldman M. P. and Heblich S. Local entrepreneurship in context, Regional Studies. This paper posits that regions provide locational factors which determine the industry structure and with it entrepreneurial opportunities whose exploitation influences regional dynamics. To test this interrelation between regional characteristics and entrepreneurial activities, seventy-four West German regions were classified by their end…
Under the Lens: The Geography of Optical Science as an Emerging Industry
Optical science is the study of light and the ways in which light interacts with matter. Although its origins coincide with the earliest scientific inquiry, modern optics is an enabling technology that is applied to a variety of intermediate markets-telecommunication equipment, medical devices, scientific instruments, semiconductors, imaging and reproduction, defense and security, and retail logistics. One difficulty in studying emerging technolo…
The Geographic Sources of Innovation: Technological Infrastructure and Product Innovation in the United States
The fate of regions and of nations increasingly depends upon ideas and innovations to facilitate growth. In recent years, geographers have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the innovation process by exploring the diffusion of innovation, the location of R&D, and the geography of high-technology industry. This paper examines the geographic sources of innovation, focusing specifically on the relationship between product innovat…
RKnowledge: The Spatial Diffusion and Adoption of rDNA Methods
Feldman M. P., Kogler D. F. and Rigby D. L. rKnowledge: the spatial diffusion and adoption of rDNA methods, Regional Studies. The 1980 patent granted to Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer for their development of rDNA technology played a critical role in the establishment of the modern biotechnology industry. From the birth of this general-purpose technology in the San Francisco Bay area, rDNA-related knowledge diffused across sectors and regions of…
Financialization of Everyday Life
This chapter identifies three key research themes for investigating the financialization of everyday life, whereby individual subjectivity, aspiration, and forms of conduct at the level of individuals and households are increasingly tied to financial structures and logics. The first theme analyses how new intermediaries of finance have increased the influence and pervasiveness of financial instruments and solutions in everyday life. The second ex…
Truth for Its Own Sake: Academic Culture and Technology Transfer at Johns Hopkins University
Under the Lens: The Geography of Optical Science as an Emerging Industry
Optical science is the study of light and the ways in which light interacts with matter. Although its origins coincide with the earliest scientific inquiry, modern optics is an enabling technology that is applied to a variety of intermediate markets-telecommunication equipment, medical devices, scientific instruments, semiconductors, imaging and reproduction, defense and security, and retail logistics. One difficulty in studying emerging technolo…
Local Entrepreneurship in Context
Audretsch D. B., Falck O., Feldman M. P. and Heblich S. Local entrepreneurship in context, Regional Studies. This paper posits that regions provide locational factors which determine the industry structure and with it entrepreneurial opportunities whose exploitation influences regional dynamics. To test this interrelation between regional characteristics and entrepreneurial activities, seventy-four West German regions were classified by their end…
Institutional change and network evolution: Explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region
Institutional change and network evolution: explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region. Regional Studies. This paper investigates how institutions impact tie formation, arguing that institutions can direct firm strategies towards exploration or towards exploitation. It translates these strategies into tie formations: explorative tie formation produces structural holes as a…
Institutional life within an entrepreneurial region
Institutions are often regarded as static and unchanging, portrayed as constraints on innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional economic change. We propose an alternative perspective in order to understand how entrepreneurs experience and engage with institutions in ways that shape and help advance their collective interests. Motivated by our own research on regional entrepreneurial development, we theorize institutions as lived and interpreted …
Technological dynamics and social capability: US states and European nations
This article analyzes factors shaping technological capabilities in USA and European countries, and shows that the differences between the two continents in this respect are much smaller than commonly assumed. The analysis demonstrates a tendency toward convergence in technological capabilities for the sample as a whole between 1998 and 2008. The results indicate that social capabilities, such as well-developed public knowledge infrastructure, an…
Where science comes to life: University bioscience, commercial spin‐offs, and regional economic development
Biotechnology, rather than being defined as a distinct industry like steelmaking or shipbuilding, is instead a scientific knowledge base—a rapidly evolving technology—that has economically valuable applications in such diverse industries as Pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics, agriculture, bioen‐vironmental remediation, and chemical processing. Biotechnology has captured the imagination of ambitious scientific investigators and investors seeking…
Isolated in the Lab: Examining Dissatisfaction with Postdoctoral Appointments
Dissatisfaction with postdoctoral appointments is associated with demographics, career goals, types of research, postdoc-advisor interaction, and program quality. Rather than a simple inverse relationship to dissatisfaction, the effect of program quality depends on the postdoc's autonomy to shape a research project, interaction with an advisor, and the advisor's commercialization-related activities
The Internet revolution and the geography of innovation
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: Ecosystem perspectives
evolutionary economic geography, entrepreneurial ecosystem, ecosystem emergence, industry cluster, regional economic change
We miss you George Bailey: The effect of local banking conditions on the county-level timing of the Great Recession
Community banks have a unique capacity to strengthen economic resilience by alleviating local firm credit constraints during economic downturns. We provide evidence that banking access and community bank market share affected both the county-level timing and duration of the Great Recession in the United States. Using the Cox Proportional Hazards and Heckman Selection models, we find that communities with a higher community bank market share are l…
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography
Economic geography has undergone a renaissance, led by a new As the Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (Clark et al., 2000) was going into press. Porter, M. E. Location, Clusters, and Company Strategy. In Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by G. Clark, M. Feldman, and M. Gertler. Oxford:. Ray Hudson has been a member of staff in the Department of Geography since 1972 (having been Hudson, R. The Oxford handbook of economic geography
The Geography of Innovation
The geography of innovation refers to the spatial clustering of innovative activity and the advantages conferred by co-location. Economic actors realize gains when located to places with abundant resources, well-developed social networks and the chance for serendipitous encounters: all factors that increase the probability of recognizing opportunity and easily solving problems. Location can lower search costs through localized knowledge spillover…
R & D Spillovers and Recipient Firm Size
The findings in this paper provide some insight into how small firms are able to innovate. Using a production function approach to relate knowledge generating inputs to innovative output, the empirical results suggest that small firms are the recipients of R&D spillovers from knowledge generated in the R&D centers of their larger counterparts and in universities. Such R&D spillovers are apparently more decisive in promoting the innovative activit…
Knowledge complementarity and innovation
The Geographic Sources of Innovation: Technological Infrastructure and Product Innovation in the United States
The fate of regions and of nations increasingly depends upon ideas and innovations to facilitate growth. In recent years, geographers have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the innovation process by exploring the diffusion of innovation, the location of R&D, and the geography of high-technology industry. This paper examines the geographic sources of innovation, focusing specifically on the relationship between product innovat…
Innovative clusters and the industry life cycle
The New Economics Of Innovation, Spillovers And Agglomeration: Areview Of Empirical Studies
This paper reviews recent empirical studies of location and innovation. The objective is to highlight the questions addressed, approaches adopted, and further issues that remain. The review is organized around the traditions of measuring geographically mediated spillovers and productivity studies that introduce a geographic dimension. The first part identilies four separate strains in thc empirical spillover literature: innovation production func…
Innovation in cities
The Oxford handbook of economic geography
Where science comes to life: University bioscience, commercial spin‐offs, and regional economic development
Biotechnology, rather than being defined as a distinct industry like steelmaking or shipbuilding, is instead a scientific knowledge base—a rapidly evolving technology—that has economically valuable applications in such diverse industries as Pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics, agriculture, bioen‐vironmental remediation, and chemical processing. Biotechnology has captured the imagination of ambitious scientific investigators and investors seeking…
The Internet revolution and the geography of innovation
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography
Economic geography has undergone a renaissance, led by a new As the Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (Clark et al., 2000) was going into press. Porter, M. E. Location, Clusters, and Company Strategy. In Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by G. Clark, M. Feldman, and M. Gertler. Oxford:. Ray Hudson has been a member of staff in the Department of Geography since 1972 (having been Hudson, R. The Oxford handbook of economic geography
Chapter 61 Knowledge spillovers and the geography of innovation
Truth for Its Own Sake: Academic Culture and Technology Transfer at Johns Hopkins University
Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation
Local Entrepreneurship in Context
Audretsch D. B., Falck O., Feldman M. P. and Heblich S. Local entrepreneurship in context, Regional Studies. This paper posits that regions provide locational factors which determine the industry structure and with it entrepreneurial opportunities whose exploitation influences regional dynamics. To test this interrelation between regional characteristics and entrepreneurial activities, seventy-four West German regions were classified by their end…
Under the Lens: The Geography of Optical Science as an Emerging Industry
Optical science is the study of light and the ways in which light interacts with matter. Although its origins coincide with the earliest scientific inquiry, modern optics is an enabling technology that is applied to a variety of intermediate markets-telecommunication equipment, medical devices, scientific instruments, semiconductors, imaging and reproduction, defense and security, and retail logistics. One difficulty in studying emerging technolo…
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005, Paul E. Ceruzzi, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2008). 192 pp. US$29.95 (hbk). ISBN-13: 978 0 262 03374 9. I am inspired by Paul Ceruzzi's bo
Technological dynamics and social capability: US states and European nations
This article analyzes factors shaping technological capabilities in USA and European countries, and shows that the differences between the two continents in this respect are much smaller than commonly assumed. The analysis demonstrates a tendency toward convergence in technological capabilities for the sample as a whole between 1998 and 2008. The results indicate that social capabilities, such as well-developed public knowledge infrastructure, an…
RKnowledge: The Spatial Diffusion and Adoption of rDNA Methods
Feldman M. P., Kogler D. F. and Rigby D. L. rKnowledge: the spatial diffusion and adoption of rDNA methods, Regional Studies. The 1980 patent granted to Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer for their development of rDNA technology played a critical role in the establishment of the modern biotechnology industry. From the birth of this general-purpose technology in the San Francisco Bay area, rDNA-related knowledge diffused across sectors and regions of…
Isolated in the Lab: Examining Dissatisfaction with Postdoctoral Appointments
Dissatisfaction with postdoctoral appointments is associated with demographics, career goals, types of research, postdoc-advisor interaction, and program quality. Rather than a simple inverse relationship to dissatisfaction, the effect of program quality depends on the postdoc's autonomy to shape a research project, interaction with an advisor, and the advisor's commercialization-related activities
Institutional change and network evolution: Explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region
Institutional change and network evolution: explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region. Regional Studies. This paper investigates how institutions impact tie formation, arguing that institutions can direct firm strategies towards exploration or towards exploitation. It translates these strategies into tie formations: explorative tie formation produces structural holes as a…
Institutional life within an entrepreneurial region
Institutions are often regarded as static and unchanging, portrayed as constraints on innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional economic change. We propose an alternative perspective in order to understand how entrepreneurs experience and engage with institutions in ways that shape and help advance their collective interests. Motivated by our own research on regional entrepreneurial development, we theorize institutions as lived and interpreted …
Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary India
India is an exception to many so-called rules in social science. This chapter considers why accounts of long-term economic growth, which assume that either institutional quality or geography is a foundational driver of change, are confounded by India. Attention is directed instead to consistency of economic policymaking, competition between provinces, and the stability of underlying political settlements. The chapter also considers why India’s gr…
Crisis and Austerity in Action: Greece
The chapter addresses uneven prosperity in Europe, based on the geographically divergent outcome of the 2008 global financial and eurozone crisis. Austerity-induced recession has led to dramatic output and employment decline in Greece, raising questions about the causes of territorial economic vulnerability, or resilience. Metropolitan Athens, the hub of Greece’s economy, has suffered even more severe employment losses and unemployment, massive b…
Pursuing Equitable Economic Growth in the Global South
Economic growth is not an inherently equitable process. It has become clear that certain groups of society are more consistently capable of reaping the benefits of economic growth and that much of the interpersonal and territorial inequality that is especially pervasive in the Global South is attributable to the pursuit and achievement of economic growth in the absence of sufficient concern for notions of equity. This awareness has invigorated an…
Economics (23 works) · Economic geography (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Business (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Economic system (8 works)