The economics of regional clusters : networks, technology, and policy /

The economics of regional clusters : networks, technology, and policy /

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Imprint:Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008.
Description:vii, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:New horizons in regional science
New horizons in regional science.
Subject:
Industrial clusters.
Regional economics.
Industrial policy.
Industrial clusters.
Industrial policy.
Regional economics.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7686068
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Other authors / contributors:Blien, Uwe.
Maier, Gunther.
ISBN:9781847205155 (hardback)
1847205151 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This 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 important theoretical and empirical issues concerning clusters and cluster policy from a regional economic perspective. As a whole, the book aims to examine the hyperbole that often surrounds clusters by employing sound scientific evidence and rigorous analysis. Contributors to this book include: B. Alecke, C. Alsleben, U. Blien, T. Brenner, M.J. Burger, J.C. Duque, E. Feser, P. Franz, G. Heimpold, S. Iammarino, M. Kiese, S. Köhler, N. Litzel, G. Maier, P. McCann, J. Möller, L. Monteiro Monasterio, A. Otto, O. Raspe, S.J. Rey, M.T.W. Rosenfeld, F. Scharr, A. Torre, G. Untiedt, F.G. van Oort, M. Wrobel.
Table of Contents:
  • The starting point / Uwe Blien and Gunther Maier
  • Innovation dynamics and the structure and evolution of industrial clusters / Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann
  • First steps towards a critical appraisal of clusters / André Torre
  • A network based approach towards industry clustering / Juan C. Duque and Sergio J. Rey
  • Industry-specific spatial agglomerations in Germany / Thomas Brenner
  • 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
  • Clusters and the spatial structure of wages in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) : a multilevel approach / Leonardo Monteiro Monasterio
  • Measuring specialisation and concentration in regional clusters
  • an empirical analysis for Eastern Bavaria / Joachim Möller and Nicole Litzel
  • Inter-firm relations and economic clustering in the Dutch Randstad Region / Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger and Otto Raspe
  • 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 Köhler
  • On building clusters versus leveraging synergies in the design of innovation policy for developing economies / Edward Feser
  • Geographic concentration of sectors in the German economy : some unpleasant macroeconomic evidence for regional cluster policy / Björn Alecke, Christoph Alsleben, Frank Scharr and Gerhard Untiedt
  • Clusters and networks ... their spell has by no means been broken! / Martin Wrobel
  • Cluster approaches to local economic development : conceptual remarks and case studies from Lower Saxony, Germany / Matthias Kiese.
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