Changing Governance of Local Economies: Responses of European Local Production Systems

Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 13
1. Introduction......Page 16
Part I. Established Local Production Systems: The Machinery Industries......Page 26
2. The European Machinery Industry Under Pressure......Page 28
3. Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna......Page 38
4. Refining National Policy: The Machine-Tool Industry in the Local Economy of Stuttgart......Page 61
5. Machine Tooling in the United Kingdom......Page 89
6. Machine Tools in France: A Century of Failure to Build a Competitive Industry......Page 114
7. Hybrid Governance and Networked Firms......Page 134
Part II. Trying to Establish Local Production Systems: The Ex-Steel Cities......Page 144
8. The Reconstruction of Declining Local Economies in Europe......Page 146
9. Restructuring Duisburg: A New Local Production System Substitutes an Old Steel Plant......Page 154
10. Life after Industrial Decline in St Etienne: Robust SMEs, Deterritorialization, and the Making of a Local Mode of Governance......Page 175
11. Regeneration in Sheffield: From Council Dominance to Partnership......Page 195
12. Industrial Decline and Local Development Policies in the Steel Area of Piombino......Page 212
13. After Steel: Some Minor Emergence of Local Production Systems Based on SMEs......Page 233
Part III. New Local Production Systems: High-Tech Sectors......Page 242
14. High-Tech Districts......Page 244
15. The Biopharmaceutical Cluster in Oxford......Page 252
16. Recombining Governance Modes: The Media Sector in Cologne......Page 276
17. Between Cities and Districts: Local Software Systems in Italy......Page 298
18. Grenoble Valley......Page 321
19. The Governance of High-Tech Districts......Page 336
20. Conclusions......Page 346
References......Page 359
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