Growth and social capital: an evolutionary model |
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Authors: | Luca Correani Fabio Di Dio Giuseppe Garofalo |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Managerial, Technological and Quantitative Studies, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy 2. Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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Abstract: | In this paper, we analyze the role of cooperation between firms through a model of growth and social capital. In a growth model à la Solow we incorporate the set of resources that a relational network has at its disposals, as a distinct production factor, and thus examine its dissemination through evolutionary type processes in firm interactions. Dynamic analysis of the model demonstrates that cooperation is able to increase the productivity of factors, fostering a higher rate of growth in the long term. The most significant result is that scarcity of social capital can produce a general collapse of the economic system in areas in which long term growth is usually sustained by the learning by doing and spillover of knowledge phenomena. This conclusion leads to reconsider the role of local development economic policies that should concentrate on activities that promote repeated interaction between firms proven to be cooperative or that encourage the formation of technological consortia. |
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