Emerging Clusters: Theoretical, Empirical and Politcal Perspectives on the Initial Stage of Cluster Evolution (Industrial Dynamics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation)

Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1. Emerging clusters: a conceptual overview......Page 12
PART I  Accidents, path dependency and strategic action......Page 26
2. Jacobian cluster emergence: wider insights from ‘green innovation’ convergence on a Schumpeterian ‘failure’......Page 28
3. Economic policy and its impact on the evolution of clusters and spatial systems exemplified by German TV programme production......Page 54
4. Bridging ruptures: the re-emergence of the Antwerp diamond district after World War II and the role of strategic action......Page 85
PART II  Institutions and endogenous dynamics......Page 108
5. Origins of human capital in clusters: regional, industrial and academic transitions in media clusters in Germany......Page 110
6. The co-evolution of ICT, VC and policy in Israel during the 1990s......Page 151
7. Standards as institutions supporting the cluster emergence process: the case of aquaculture in Chile......Page 176
PART III  Patterns of emergence and growth......Page 200
8. The evolution of the banking cluster in Amsterdam, 1850–1993: a survival analysis......Page 202
9. The role of the university in the genesis and evolution of research-based clusters......Page 225
10. Sources of ‘second generation growth’: spin-off processes in the emerging biochip industries in Jena and Berlin......Page 250
11. The emergence and development of the Cambridge ink jet printing industry......Page 276
PART IV  Cluster emergence and emergence of cluster politics......Page 304
12. Neither planned nor by chance: how knowledge-intensive clusters emerge......Page 306
13. Policy transfer and institutional learning: an evolutionary perspective on regional cluster policies in Germany......Page 335
Index......Page 366