Breandan O hUallachain is a professor within the School of Gepgraphical Sciences and Urban Planning. O hUallachain's scholarship has focused on the economic impacts on development, including industrial location and urban economic development.
His recent research focuses on globalization of manufacturing, specifically in the automotive industry. Production by foreign-owned automotive firms in the United States provides an opportunity to investigate the co-location of technological advance and manufacturing. While some scholars report that certain foreign firms are transplanting both of these activities to the United States, others are more circumspect.Identifying automotive patents across American metropolitan areas to develop a new taxonomy of automotive invention, patent ownership is then traced and shows a clear gap between foreign-owned firms’ production in the United States and formation of invention capital. The findings support a hypothesis that globalization of manufacturing noticeably outpaces the spread of invention assets.
Education
Ph.D. Geography, University of Illinois 1982
M.A. Geography, Indiana University 1976
B.A. Geography and Economics, National University of Ireland (University College Dublin) 1973
Economic, industrial location, urban and regional economic development
Publications
Breandán Ó hUallacháin and Der-Shiuan Lee. Technological Specialization and Variety in Urban Invention. Regional Studies (2011).
Breandan O hUallachain and Timothy F. Leslie. POSTINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING IN A SUNBELT METROPOLIS: WHERE ARE FACTORIES LOCATED IN PHOENIX?. Urban Geography (2009).
Breandan O hUallachain. Regional Growth Transition Clubs in the United States. Papers in Regional Science (2008).
Breandan O'Huallachain. Regional Growth Transition Clubs in the United States. Papers in Regional Science (2008).
Breandan O'Huallachain. Regional Growth in a Knowledge-Based Economy. International Regional Science Review (2007).
Breandan O'Huallachain, Timothy Leslie. Producer Services in the Urban Core and Suburbs of Phoenix. Urban Studies (2007).
Breandan O'Huallachain, Timothy Leslie. Rethinking the Regional Knowledge Production. Journal of Economic Geography (2007).
Breandan O'Huallachain, Timothy Leslie. Spatial Convergence and Spillovers in American Invention. Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2005).
Research Activity
O'Huallachain,Breandan*. DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN GEOGRAPHY & REGIONAL SCI. NSF(7/15/1989 - 12/31/1990).
Breandan O hUallachain. Inventive Mega-Regions of the United States. Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Washington DC (Apr 2010).
O'Huallachain, Breandan. Using Spatial Analysis to Identify Urban Technology Regions. North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association (Nov 2007).
O'Huallachain, Breandan. Rethinking the Regional Knowledge Production Function. 2007 AAG Annual Meeting (Apr 2007).
O'Huallachain, Breandan. Regional Growth Transition Clubs in the United States. North American Regional Science Association Annual Meeting (Nov 2006).
O'Huallachain, Breandan. Regional Growth Transition Clubs in the United States. Annual AAG Meeting (Mar 2006).
O'Huallachain, Breandan, Leslie, Timothy. Do University Patents Weaken Knowledge Spillovers?. 2005 North American Meeing of the Regional Science Association (Nov 2005).
O'Huallachain, Breandan, Leslie, Timothy. Do University Patents Weaken Knowledge Spillovers. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Geographers (Oct 2005).
O'Huallachain, Breandan. Establishing GIS Professional Masters Degrees. 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of Amercican Geographers (Apr 2005).
O'Huallachain, Breandan. Spatial Convergence in American Invention. 2005 Annual Meeting of the AAG (Apr 2005).
