ISBN: 354000999X
TITLE: Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition
AUTHOR: Brcker et al.
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Preface v
Clusters and Competition as Engines of Innovation - An Introduction 1
Johannes Brcker, Dirk Dohse and Rdiger Soltwedel
Part I: Geography and Innovation
2 Globalization, Innovation and the Strategic Management of Places 11
David B. Audretsch
Regional Innovation and Learning Systems, Clusters, and Local and Global Value Chains 28
Philip Cooke
4 Networks and Technological Change in Regional Clusters 52
Riccardo Cappellin
5 How and Why Does the Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems Differ? 79
Michael Fritsch
Part II: The Anatomy of Clusters
6 Regional Clusters: What We Know and What We Should Know 99
Michael J. Enright
7 The Demography of Clusters-Findings from the Cluster Meta-Study 130
Claas van der Linde
8 Drivers of Economic Growth: The Role of Innovative Clusters 150
Jean Guinet
Part III: Identifying Agglomeration Economies
9 Productivity and the Density of Regional Clusters 163
Rui Baptista
10 The Agglomeration Wage Differential Reconsidered: An Investigation Using German Micro Data 1984-1997 182
Joachim Mller and Anette Haas
11 Skills and Clusters 218
Antonio Ciccone and Federico Cingano
Part IV: The Role of Institutions
12 Corporate Governance of Cluster Development Agencies: The Case for Market Orientation 241
Piero Formica
13 Unions, Innovation and Scale 272
Tod D. Rutherford
14 Big Government in a Small World: The Effect of Public Expenditure on Economic Growth 293
Martijn R.E. Brons, Henri L.F. de Groot and Peter Nijkamp
15 Economic Innovations Depend Upon Political Innovations: On Deregulating the Political Process 314
Reiner Eichenberger
Part V: Cluster-based Innovation Policies
16 Territorial Competition: Lessons for (Innovation) Policy 331
Paul C. Cheshire
17 New Firms, Regional Development and the Cluster Approach - What Can Technology Policies Achieve? 347
Rolf Sternberg
18 Taking Regions Seriously: Recent Innovations in German Technology Policy 372
Dirk Dohse
List of Figures 395
List of Tables 397
Index 401
List of Contributors 407
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