Industrial Clusters and Inter-firm NetworksCharlie Karlsson, B”rje Johansson, Roger Stough 'This well-edited volume should be on the shelf of every regional development agency library. Its seventeen chapters written by 31 predominantly academic contributors are divided into four coherent sections: the first on cluster and network modelling, |
Contents
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An Analysis of Current Theories and Evidence | 29 |
Agentbased Models of Emergent Phenomena | 57 |
4 Towards a System DynamicsBased Theory of Industrial Clusters | 81 |
5 Parsing the Menagerie of Agglomeration and Network Externalities | 105 |
A Pilot Study | 146 |
7 The Clustering of the British Financial Services Industry | 171 |
8 Governance Mechanisms in the Liquid Packaging Industry | 198 |
The Case of the Baltimore Metropolitan Region | 301 |
12 New Evidence on the Geographic Concentration of German Industries | 319 |
North Carolina and Sweden | 359 |
Case Study of Qingdao Development Zones | 388 |
The Case of Bioinstruments in Jena | 411 |
The Example of Film in Vast in the Region of Västra Götaland Sweden | 451 |
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