ISBN: 3790814717
TITEL: Contributions to Economics
AUTHOR: Quadrio Curzio/Fortis
TOC:

Preface V
Introduction: From Specific Industrial Cases to a General Economic Model?
Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Marco Fortis 1
I. Complexity and Economic Dynamics
What is Complexity?
Murray Gell-Mann 13
Complex Adaptive Systems and Spontaneous Emergence 
John H. Holland 25
The Industrial Cluster as a Complex Adaptive System
Enzo Rullani 35
II. General Models of Industrial Cluster Dynamics
Complexity and Local Interactions: Towards a Theory of Industrial Districts
David A. Lane 65
From Marshall's to the Italian "Industrial Districts". A Brief Critical Reconstruction
Giacomo Becattini 83
Diversity, not Specialization: The Ties That Bind the (New) Industrial
District
Charles F. Sahel 107
Competitive and Synergic Behaviours in the Development of Industrial Clusters: Ecological Modelling and Empirical Evidence
Marco Fortis and Mario A. Maggioni 123
On the Ubiquitous Nature of Agglomeration Economies and Their Diverse Determinants: Some Notes
Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi and Giorgio Fagiolo 167
III. Success Cases Around the World
The Entrepreneurial Spark: Individual Agents and the Formation of Innovative Clusters
Maryann P. Feldman and Johanna Francis 195
From Exogenous to Endogenous Local Development: The Cases of the Toulouse and Sophia Antipolis Technopoles
Christian Longhi 213
Biotechnology Development in Germany: The Case of Nordrhein-Westfalen
Francesco Salamini, Anke Sohn and Hartmut Thomas 239
Support for Technology-Based Firms: The Role Played by Property-Based
Science Parks
Don Siegel, Paul Westhead and Mike Wright 249
High-tech Industrial Clusters in the Asian Countries: The Case of the Electronics Industry in the Hsinchu-Taipei Region
Kung Wang 267
Financial Markets, Industrial Clusters and Small and Medium-size Enterprises
Angelo Tantazzi 291
List of Authors 303
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