Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition [Hardcover]

The world's leading experts contribute to our understanding of regional innovation, cluster formation and the factors that influence regional productivity and innovative performance. The text improves our understanding of the reasons why, how and where innovation clusters emerge, as well as the factors that determine their respective success or failure. In doing so, it provides a timely and comprehensive picture on innovation, location, networks and clusters as important means in an environment of intensifying interregional competition. The book is written for professional researchers as well as for students and practitioners in politics, business and consultancy.

Empirical evidence about cluster building, the emphasis of new growth theory on innovation, the recent interest in economic geography and the high pressure on politicians to establish favourable conditions for attracting dynamic industries have triggered a wave of research during the last decade, trying to understand more deeply why, how and where clusters emerge, and what factors determine their respective success or failure. In this volume the world's leading experts contribute to our understanding of regional innovation, cluster formation and the factors influencing regional productivity and innovative performance. It provides a timely and comprehensive picture on innovation, location, networks and clusters as important means in an environment of intensifying interregional competition.

1 Clusters and Competition as Engines of Innovation An Introduction.- I: Geography and Innovation.- 2 Globalization, Innovation and the Strategic Management of Places.- 3 Regional Innovation and Learning Systems, Clusters, and Local and Global Value Chains.- 4 Networks and Technological Change in Regional Clusters.- 5 How and Why Does the Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems Differ?.- II: The Anatomy of Clusters.- 6 Regional Clusters: What We Know and What We Should Know.lÓR