Clusters, Networks and Innovation
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 December 2005
- ISBN 9780199275557
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages524 pages
- Size 242x163x34 mm
- Weight 918 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous figures and tables 0
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Short description:
Recent years have seen strong interest and a growing amount of research and teaching on the phenomenon of economic and business 'clusters'. Even in a global world particular localities appear to have distinctive advantages. A key consideration for industrial policy and business location decisions, this book brings together cutting edge work on the issue by leading international scholars.
MoreLong description:
Governments and regional authorities often express the belief that the key to prosperity and economic expansion is related to the ability of countries to sustain regional clusters of competitiveness and innovation. The book reviews the most important conceptual approaches to the analysis of the emergence, growth and evolution of clusters of innovation. Drawing from the different experiences of industrial districts and high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley, Boston's biotech region, and Hsinchu-Taipei, the contributions in this book offer a broad interpretative framework and policy implications for the creation and strengthening of competitive clusters.
Themes include:
· the wide variety of existing clusters and the diversity in their emergence and growth;
· the international mobility of factors and demand linkages;
· the role of different network types and the social setting;
· the accumulation of capabilities in key large actors and the importance of spinoffs and new firm formation;
· the role of different learning regimes and sectoral specificities;
· the importance of social networks, labour mobility, and face-to-face contacts as vehicles of knowledge spillovers.
Broad implications are drawn for the design of policies to encourage successful economic clusters in developed and developing clusters.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Clusters, Networks, and Innovation: Research Results and New Directions
Part I: New Perspectives on Clusters and Networks
Network Models of Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion
On Sectoral Specificities in the Geography of Corporate Location
Regional Knowledge Capabilities and Open Innovation: Regional Innovation Systems and Cluster in the Asymmetric Knowledge Economy
Part II: Emergence of Clusters and Entrepreneurship
'Old Economy' Inputs for 'New Economy' Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valleys
The Entrepreneurial Event Revisited: Firm Formation in a Regional Context
The Firms that Feed Industrial Districts: A Return to the Italian Source
Employee Startups in High-Tech Industries
Part III: Institutions, Local Communities, National and International Networks
The Silicon Vally-Hsinchu Connection: Technical Communities and Industrial Upgrading
The Institutional Embeddedness of High-Tech Regions: Relational Foundations of the Boston Biotechnology Community
Social Networks and the Persistence of Clusters: Evidence from the Computer Workstation Industry
Part IV: Localization of Knowledge Spillovers
Buzz: Face-to-face Contact and the Urban Economy
The Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: Conceptual Issues and Measurement Problems
Comparative Localizattion of Academic and Industrial Spillovers
Part V: Public Policies Towards Clusters
Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of the Geographical Cluster
Deconstructing Clusters: Chaotic Concept or Policy Panacea
