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Clusters, Networks and Innovation
Editor Prof Stefano Breschi and Editor Prof Franco Malerba
524 pages
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Numerous figures and tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-927555-7
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Hardback
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22 December 2005
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- Examines the role of the much-vaunted concept of regional clusters in the prosperity and economic expansion of countries
- Looks at the different experiences of industrial districts and high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley, Boston's biotech region, and Hsinchu-Taipei
- Draws on research from Economics, Geography, Management Studies, and Politics
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.Readership: Academics, Researchers, and Graduate Students of Economic Goegraphy, Business and Management, and Political Economy; Regional planning authorities and consultants.
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Editor Prof Stefano Breschi, Associate Professor of Industrial Economics, Università L.Bocconi, and Editor Prof Franco Malerba, Professor of Industrial Economics, Università L. Bocconi Contributors:
James D. Adams, University of Florida
Giulio Bottazzi, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Stefano Breschi, Università L. Bocconi
Timothy Breshanan, Stanford University
Philip Cooke, Cardiff University
Robin Cowan, University of Maastricht
Giovanni Dosi, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Giorgio Fagiolo, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Maryann P. Feldman, Johns Hopkins University
Alfonso Gambardella, Sant' Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
Jinn-Yuh Hsu, National Taiwan Normal University
Steven Klepper, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Mark H. Lazerson
Francesco Lissoni, Università degli Studie di Brecia
Gianni Lorenzoni, University of Bologna
Franco Malerba, Università L. Bocconi
Ron Martin, University of Cambridge
Peter Maskell, Copenhagen Business School
Fabio Montobbio, Università degli Studi dell; Insubria, Varese
Kelley Porter, Stanford University
Walter W. Powell, Stanford University
AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley
Olav
Sorenson, University of California, Los Angeles
Micahel Storper, IEP, Sciences-Po, Paris, and London School of Economics
Peter Sunley, University of Edinburgh
Anhony J. Venables, London School of Economics and CEPR
Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Stanford University
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"Overall, this is an excellent book. Like a handbook, it brings together excellent essays from some of the most eminent scholars in the field. This text should become an essential source of reference for students and academics and for professionals in the development trade, and will be much referenced and cited in the future - a must for economic geography libraries." - Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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Stefano Breschi and Franco Malerba: Introduction: Clusters, Networks, and Innovation: Research Results and New Directions
Part I: New Perspectives on Clusters and Networks
1: Robin Cowan: Network Models of Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion
2: Giulio Bottazzi, Giorgio Fagiolo, and Giovanni Dosi: On Sectoral Specificities in the Geography of Corporate Location
3: Philip Cooke: Regional Knowledge Capabilities and Open Innovation: Regional Innovation Systems and Cluster in the Asymmetric Knowledge Economy
Part II: Emergence of Clusters and Entrepreneurship
4: Timothy Breshanan, Alfonso Gambardella, and AnnaLee Saxenian: 'Old Economy' Inputs for 'New Economy' Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valleys
5: Maryann P. Feldman: The Entrepreneurial Event Revisited: Firm Formation in a Regional Context
6: Mark H. Lazerson and Gianni Lorenzoni: The Firms that Feed Industrial Districts: A Return to the Italian Source
7: Steven Klepper: Employee Startups in High-Tech Industries
Part III: Institutions, Local Communities, National and International Networks
8: AnnaLee Saxenian and Jinn-Yuh Hsu: The Silicon Vally-Hsinchu Connection: Technical Communities and Industrial Upgrading
9: Kellye Porter, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, and Walter W. Powell: The Institutional Embeddedness of High-Tech Regions: Relational Foundations of the Boston Biotechnology Community
10: Olav Sorenson: Social Networks and the Persistence of Clusters: Evidence from the Computer Workstation Industry
Part IV: Localization of Knowledge Spillovers
11: Micahel Storper and Anhony J. Venables: Buzz: Face-to-face Contact and the Urban Economy
12: Stefano Breschi, Francesco Lissoni, and Fabio Montobbio: The Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: Conceptual Issues and Measurement Problems
13: James D. Adams: Comparative Localizattion of Academic and Industrial Spillovers
Part V: Public Policies Towards Clusters
14: Peter Maskell: Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of the Geographical Cluster
15: Ron Martin and Peter Sunley: Deconstructing Clusters: Chaotic Concept or Policy Panacea
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