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The Economics Of Regional Clusters |
Edited by Uwe Blien, Institute for Employment Research and Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and Gunther Maier, WU Wien, University of Economics and Business, Austria
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Contents:
1. The Starting Point
Uwe Blien and Gunther Maier
2. Innovation Dynamics and the Structure and Evolution of Industrial Clusters
Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann
3. First Steps Towards a Critical Appraisal of Clusters
André Torre
4. A Network Based Approach Towards Industry Clustering
Juan C. Duque and Sergio J. Rey
5. Industry-specific Spatial Agglomerations in Germany
Thomas Brenner
6. 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
7. Clusters and the Spatial Structure of Wages in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil): A Multilevel Approach
Leonardo Monteiro Monasterio
8. Measuring Specialisation and Concentration in Regional Clusters – An Empirical Analysis for Eastern Bavaria
Joachim Möller and Nicole Litzel
9. Inter-Firm Relations and Economic Clustering in the Dutch Randstad Region
Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger and Otto Raspe
10. 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
11. On Building Clusters versus Leveraging Synergies in the Design of Innovation Policy for Developing Economies
Edward Feser
12. 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
13. Clusters and Networks. . . Their Spell Has By No Means Been Broken!
Martin Wrobel
14. Cluster Approaches to Local Economic Development: Conceptual Remarks and Case Studies from Lower Saxony, Germany
Matthias Kiese
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2008
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320 pp
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Hardback |
978 1 84720 515 5
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