A life cycle for clusters? : the dynamics of agglomeration, change, and adaption
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A life cycle for clusters? : the dynamics of agglomeration, change, and adaption
（Contributions to economics）
Physica-Verlag, c2006
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A life cycle for clusters? : the dynamics of agglomeration, change, and adaptation
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-245)
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Description
This book studies the determinants of cluster survival by analyzing their adaptability to change in the economic environment. Linking theoretic knowledge with empirical observations, a simulation model (based in the N/K method) is developed, which explains when and why the cluster's architecture assists or hampers adaptability. It is found that architectures with intermediate degrees of division of labor and more collective governance forms foster adaptability.
Table of Contents
The rationale for studying cluster dynamics.- Introduction: Clusters, change and adaptation.- Literature review - The benefits of co-location.- Stability and change: Driving cluster development.- The nature of the beast - On the notion of agglomeration externalities.- Towards a complexity perspective on clusters.- Clusters, change and adaptation: Sticky places in slippery space?.- Modelling adaptation in clusters - The promise of complexity theory.- Model development - Clusters as complex adaptive systems.- Micromotives and macrobehaviour - Dynamics of N/K systems.- Clusters as co-evolving N/K systems.- Division of labour, co-ordination and cluster adaptation.- Clusters, change and adaptation - Simulation results.- Model contribution, limitation and avenues for future research.
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