Clusters in Urban and Regional Development (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cumbers, Andrew; McKinnon, Danny

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Going beyond the celebrated 'hot-spots' of economic development, this book draws upon evidence from a broader range of cities and regions to help fill some important gaps in our knowledge of how clusters operate within the contemporary global economy.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Urban Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317998846
• Artikelnr.: 57100716

Autorenporträt

Andy Cumbers is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. Danny MacKinnon is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Aberdeen.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Clusters in urban and regional development 2. Clusters,
Dispersion and the Spaces In Between: For an economic geography of the
banal 3. The Cluster as Market Organization 4. Where is the Value-Added in
the Cluster Approach? Hermeneutic theorising, economic geography and
clusters as a multi-perspectival approach 5. Working through Knowledge
Pools: Labour market dynamics, the transference of knowledge and ideas and
industrial clusters 6. Entrepreneurial Activity and the Dynamics of
Technology-Based Cluster Development: The case of Ottawa 7. Clusters from
the Inside and Out: Lessons from the Canadian study of cluster development
8. Innovation and Clustering in the Globalized International Economy 9.
Life Sciences Clusters and Regional Science Policy 10. Embryonic Knowledge
Based Clusters and Cities: The case of biotechnology in Scotland 11.
Knowledge-Based Clusters and Urban Location: The clustering of software
consultancy in Oslo 12. Like a Phoenix from the Ashes? The renewal of
clusters in old industrial areas