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On the basis of assessment data on land prices in Danish city areas, a model showing land rent gradients approximated by a third degree polynomial is estimated for 48 individual Danish cities. The intra-urban structure is connected to an inter-urban model by the expansion method, where the coefficients of the individual towns are functions of town population size and town income level.

This paper examines the remarkable development of technology and the fast learning-by-doing in the windmill industry since it emerged in the beginning of the 1980s. Based on time series of prices of windmills a dynamic cost function for producing windmills is tested. The estimations verified that learning-by-doing in the Danish windmill industry has contributed significantly to improve the cost efficiency of the producers. The technological development has been stimulated both by process and product innovations as the capacity of the individual mills has increased. The learning effect created by early subsidies from the government has consolidated the competitive advantages of the windmill cluster in Denmark and preserved the first mover advantages at the world market. The article concludes that the industry probably will enter into a matured phase in the future with more modest technological growth.