Knowledge economies : clusters, learning and cooperative advantage
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Knowledge economies : clusters, learning and cooperative advantage
(Routledge studies in international business and the world economy, 26)
Routledge, 2002
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [201]-213
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples, who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources. Initially, natural resource endowments explained the formation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century industrial districts. Today, geographical concentrations of scientific and creative knowledge are the key resource. But these require a support system, ranging from major injections of basic research funding, to varieties of financial investment and management, tothe provision of specialist incubators, for economic value to be realised. These are also specialised forms of knowledge that contribute to a serious imbalance in the distribution of economic opportunity.
Table of Contents
1. Clusters, Collective Learning and Disruptive Economic Change
2. An Evolutionary Approach to Learning, Clusters and Economic Development: Theoretical Issues
3. Multi-Level Governance and the Emergence of Regional Innovation Network Policy
4. Learning, Trust and Social Capital
5. Networks and Clusters in the Learning Economy
6. The Clustering Phenomenon in the 'New Economy': an Anatomy of Growth and Further Lessons for Policy
7. Can Clusters be Built? Questions for Policy
8. Knowledge Economies: Here to Stay? Where to go?
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