Discussion on the dispersion & agglomeration of aircraft industry
The aircraft industry is crucial to the economy and security of a nation. In this paper, the spatial characteristics and patterns of the aircraft industry are analyzed on different spatial scales. It is found that there is a 'Matthew effect' in the global aircraft industry and the spatial evolution of the industry is consistent with the industrialization process of the whole country. It is also revealed that the spatial evolution of the country is driven by both the centripetal forces including capital, talents, technology and agglomeration economies and the centrifugal forces including the comparative advantage, cost &risk sharing, emerging markets, development policy for less-developed regions and the military imperative. These forces have both market-stabilizing and market-disrupting effects on the spatial evolution of the aircraft industry. The study suggests that lessons drawn from the experiences in the United States and France are expected to be conducive to the rise of China's aircraft industry in the future.
作 者： Bo Chu 作者单位： Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101;Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 刊 名： 西安交通大学学报（英文版） 英文刊名： ACADEMIC JOURNAL OF XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY(ENGLISH EDITION) 年，卷(期)： 2009 21(3) 分类号： V11 K902 关键词： aircraft industry dispersion agglomeration spatial evolution