The economics of regional clusters : networks, technology and policy
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Bibliographic Information
The economics of regional clusters : networks, technology and policy
(New horizons in regional science)
Edward Elgar, c2008
Available at 26 libraries
  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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This important book takes a critical view on regional industry clusters, in particular their identification and formation, and the policies which help create and support them.
The distinguished international contributors comprehensively discuss the theoretical and empirical issues concerning clusters and cluster policy from a regional economic perspective. Based on a broad range of methods, the authors derive results about the existence and structure of regional industrial clusters and assess their contribution to the development of regions. As a whole, the book examines the hyperbole that often surrounds clusters by employing sound scientific evidence and rigorous analysis.
Academics and advanced students of regional science, regional economics and economic geography will find the academic discussion of spatial concentrations of economic activities to be of much interest. Policymakers will also appreciate the critical approach taken towards the currently fashionable cluster policy.
Table of Contents
Contents:
1. The Starting Point
Uwe Blien and Gunther Maier
2. Innovation Dynamics and the Structure and Evolution of Industrial Clusters
Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann
3. First Steps Towards a Critical Appraisal of Clusters
Andre Torre
4. A Network Based Approach Towards Industry Clustering
Juan C. Duque and Sergio J. Rey
5. Industry-specific Spatial Agglomerations in Germany
Thomas Brenner
6. Sectoral Concentration, Business Networks and Innovative Competences in East Germany - An Empirical Approach to Identify Economic Clusters
Martin T.W. Rosenfeld, Peter Franz and Gerhard Heimpold
7. Clusters and the Spatial Structure of Wages in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil): A Multilevel Approach
Leonardo Monteiro Monasterio
8. Measuring Specialisation and Concentration in Regional Clusters - An Empirical Analysis for Eastern Bavaria
Joachim Moeller and Nicole Litzel
9. Inter-Firm Relations and Economic Clustering in the Dutch Randstad Region
Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger and Otto Raspe
10. The Contribution of New and Young Firms to the Economic Development of Clusters in Germany: Comparative Analysis of a Growing, a Mature and a Declining Cluster
Anne Otto and Stefan Koehler
11. On Building Clusters versus Leveraging Synergies in the Design of Innovation Policy for Developing Economies
Edward Feser
12. Geographic Concentration of Sectors in the German Economy: Some Unpleasant Macroeconomic Evidence for Regional Cluster Policy
Bjoern Alecke, Christoph Alsleben, Frank Scharr and Gerhard Untiedt
13. Clusters and Networks. . . Their Spell Has By No Means Been Broken!
Martin Wrobel
14. Cluster Approaches to Local Economic Development: Conceptual Remarks and Case Studies from Lower Saxony, Germany
Matthias Kiese
Index
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