Regional economic development has experienced considerable dynamism over recent years. Perhaps the most notable cases were the rise of China and India to emergent country status by the turn of the millennium. With time now for hindsight, this book identifies some of the key forces behind these development successes, namely agglomeration, clusters and entrepreneurship.
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Agglomeration, Clusters and Entrepreneurship
Studies in Regional Economic Development
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough
Edited by Sören Eriksson
This detailed book explores and provides insights into the development and transformation of various clusters, economies and industrial sectors in East and Southeast Asia.
Edited by Akifumi Kuchiki and Masatsugu Tsuji
This lucid and informative book analyzes the problem of clusters in transition through studies of agglomerations at different stages of development in various East Asian countries.
Emerging Clusters
Theoretical, Empirical and Political Perspectives on the Initial Stage of Cluster Evolution
Edited by Dirk Fornahl, Sebastian Henn and Max-Peter Menzel
This book rigorously explores the critical, initial stage of cluster emergence in which the seeds for further growth are sown. Whether economic growth actually occurs, however, ultimately depends on various regional conditions and the processes in place.
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on regional competition and co-operation.
Developing our current understanding of the new role of regions and their behaviour, this book addresses questions such as: How and why do regions compete? How does competition between border regions operate? Which regions are successful and which regions fail? What are the implications of regional competition in terms of resource allocation, the location of economic activities and the distribution of incomes? The book illuminates a number of critical theoretical end empirical issues relating to the competitive and cooperative nature of regions, as well as highlighting a number of new case studies from a variety of countries.
Handbook of Research on Innovation and Clusters
Cases and Policies
Edited by Charlie Karlsson
The role of innovations and clusters has increasingly dominated local and regional development policies in recent decades. This authoritative and accessible Handbook considers important aspects of high-tech clusters, analyses insightful cluster case studies, and provides a number of recommendations for cluster policies.
Edited by Jordi Suriñach, Rosina Moreno and Esther Vayá
This book begins with a theoretical examination of regional innovation
systems, agglomeration economics and knowledge spillovers, before
going on to examine the same concepts within an empirical framework.
Special emphasis is given to the importance of proximity in the formation
of regional innovation systems. It concludes by considering innovation and
human capital as determinants of regional economic growth.
Regional Knowledge Economies
Markets, Clusters and Innovation
Philip Cooke, Carla De Laurentis, Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl
This original and timely book presents the most comprehensive, empirically based analysis of clustering dynamics in the high-technology sector across liberal and co-ordinated market economies.
Industrial Agglomeration and New Technologies
A Global Perspective
Edited by Masatsugo Tsuji, Emanuelo Giovannetti and Mitsuhiro Kagami
This book, a collaborative effort by researchers from Japan, Italy and the USA, seeks to explore the reasons for industrial clustering in certain regions of Asia, Europe and North America.
The studies presented illustrate real examples of industrial clusters, adding anecdotal evidence to the emerging theory of economic geography by exemplifying the centripetal and centrifugal forces that regulate the clustering process. The authors examine clusters in a diverse set of countries including China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, the USA and Vietnam. Significantly, the book provides an interesting split between studies of IT and software-related industries, and more traditional sectors, such as steel and vehicle manufacturing.