Proximity, Distance and Diversity: Issues on Economic Interaction and Local Development

by Oinas,PSivi

• ISBN13: 9780754640745
• ISBN10: 0754640744
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book examines the question of the significance of proximate vs. more distant relationships for economic agents' performance and local economic development, and includes empirical studies from around the world. It suggests that the notions of diversity, innovativeness, maturity and multiple scales should be incorporated into the debates on the significance of proximity for economic performance.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE
Proximity, External Relations, and Local Economic Development	3	(22)
Arnoud Lagendijk
Paivi Oinas
PART 2: `LOCALISATION': CLUSTERS, INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS, AND ALL THAT - EVIDENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
Cultural Industry Cluster Building in Sweden	25	(22)
Dominic Power
Daniel Hallencreutz
Industrial Districts in a Transitional Economy: The Case of Datang Sock and Stocking Industry in Zhejiang, China	47	(22)
Jici Wang
Huasheng Zhu
Xin Tong
Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Embeddedness: The Case of Lower Galilee	69	(20)
Michael Sofer
Izhak Schnell
Networking and Project Organization in the Styrian Automotive Industry	89	(22)
Franz Todtling
Michaela Trippl
PART 3: ESTABLISHING EXTERNAL RELATIONS: THE SEARCH FOR SPECIALIZED OR DIVERSE COMPETENCES?
Supplier Search in Industrial Clusters: Sheffield Metal Working in the 1990s	111	(18)
H. Doug Watts
Andrew M. Wood
Perry Wardle
Regional Clusters Building on Local and Non-Local Relationships: A European Comparison	129	(24)
Arne Isaksen
The Evolution of Regional Packaging Machinery Clusters in Germany	153	(16)
Ivo Moßig
Glob@lizing the Network Economy: Local Advantage for High-Technology Development	169	(22)
Wen-Cheng Wang
Collaboration, Innovation and Regional Networks: Evidence from the Medical Biotechnology Industry of Greater Vancouver	191	(28)
Kevin Rees
PART 4: ECONOMIC INTERACTION ON MULTIPLE SCALES
The Process of Innovation in Contrasting Industrial Environments	219	(20)
Asbjørn Karlsen
Bjarne Lindeløv
Globalization and the Dynamics of Local Embeddedness in the South Hampshire Electronics Industry	239	(16)
Michael Taylor
Mobility versus Embeddedness: the Role of Proximity in Major Capital Projects	255	(22)
Neil Alderman
Variety of Enterprise Adaptation Strategies in the Emerging Post-Socialist Governance in Vyborg	277	(30)
Riitta Kosonen
PART 5: ADDING VALUE
Towards Understanding Proximity, Distance and Diversity in Economic Interaction and Local Development	307	(26)
Paivi Oinas
Arnoud Lagendijk
Index	333