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9780415360111

Clusters in Urban And Regional Development

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415360111

  • ISBN10:

    0415360110

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-06-23
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Going beyond the celebrated "hot-spots" of economic development, the book draws upon evidence from a broader range of cities and regions to help fill some important gaps in our knowledge of how clusters operate within the contemporary global economy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Clusters in Urban and Regional Development vii
ANDY CUMBERS AND DANNY MACKINNON
Section 1. Conceptualising Clusters
1 Clusters, Dispersion and the Spaces in Between: For an Economic Geography of the Banal
1(20)
N.A. PHELPS
2 The Cluster as Market Organisation
21(20)
PETER MASKELL AND MARK LORENZEN
3 Where Is the Value Added in the Cluster Approach? Hermeneutic Theorising, Economic Geography and Clusters as a Multiperspectival Approach
41(14)
PAUL BENNEWORTH AND NICK HENRY
Section 2. Clusters, Knowledge and Innovation
4 Working through Knowledge Pools: Labour Market Dynamics, the Transference of Knowledge and Ideas, and Industrial Clusters
55(20)
DOMINIC POWER AND MATS LUNDMARK
5 Entrepreneurial Activity and the Dynamics of Technology-based Cluster Development: The Case of Ottawa
75(26)
RICHARD T. HARRISON, SARAH Y. COOPER AND COLIN M. MASON
6 Clusters from the Inside and Out: Local Dynamics and Global Linkages
101(24)
DAVID A. WOLFE AND MERIC S. GERTLER
7 Innovation and Clustering in the Globalised International Economy
125(18)
JAMES SIMMIE
Section 3. From Dynamic to Mature Clusters
8 Life Sciences Clusters and Regional Science Policy
143(20)
PHILIP COOKE
9 'Embryonic' Knowledge-based Clusters and Cities: The Case of Biotechnology in Scotland
163(24)
JOSEPH LEIBOVITZ
10 Knowledge-based Clusters and Urban Location: The Clustering of Software Consultancy in Oslo
187(18)
ARNE ISAKSEN
11 Like Phoenix from the Ashes? The Renewal of Clusters in Old Industrial Areas
205(22)
FRANZ TÖDTLING AND MICHAELA TRIPPL
Index 227

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