Innovation Clusters and 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.- 7 The Demography of Clusters-Findings from the Cluster Meta-Study.- 8 Drivers of Economic Growth: The Role of Innovative Clusters.- III: Identifying Agglomeration Economies.- 9 Productivity and the Density of Regional Clusters.- 10 The Agglomeration Wage Differential Reconsidered: An Investigation Using German Micro Data 1984-1997.- 11 Skills and Clusters.- IV: The Role of Institutions.- 12 Corporate Governance of Cluster Development Agencies: The Case for Market Orientation.- 13 Unions, Innovation and Scale.- 14 Big Government in a Small World: The Effect of Public Expenditure on Economic Growth.- 15 Economic Innovations Depend on Political Innovations: On Deregulating the Political Process.- V: Cluster-based Innovation Policies.- 16 Territorial Competition: Lessons for (Innovation) Policy.- 17 New Firms, Regional Development and the Cluster Approach- What Can Technology Policies Achieve?.- 18 Taking Regions Seriously: Recent Innovations in German Technology Policy.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- List of Contributors.

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"This book represents an outgrowth from a 2001 international workshop on 'innovation clusters and interregional competition' ... . students of cluster-based economic development will find plenty of interesting material in this book. ... I rarely buy books these days, especially edited collections. However, I would probably make an exception for this piece. There is a good mix of theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and analytic perspectives ... . In short, this is one of the better edited collections I have seen in many years." (Alan MacPherson, Growth & Change, Vol. 35 (2), 2004)