Knowledge Economies: Clusters, Learning and Cooperative Advantage

ISBN-13: 9780415164092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 232 str.

Philip Cooke;Cooke Philip

Opis

Today concerns about national competitiveness and economic development are closely linked to notions of the information society and knowledge-based economy. Some see the emergence of a new economy, based on information, communication, media and biotechnologies. As in previous bursts of economic growth, these innovative industries emerge and grow in specific geographic locations, now called clusters. The well-known case of Silicon Valley was merely the first of a large number of such clusters to have developed in the late 20th and early 21st century. Clusters are characterized by co-operative and competitive, trustful and rivalrous, exchange and favour-based business interactions. This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources. First natural resource endowments explained the formation of 19th and early 20th century industrial districts. Today geographical concentrations of scientific and creative knowledge are the key resource.

Spis treści

1. Clusters, Collective Learning and Disruptive Economic Change
2. An Evolutionary Approach to Learning, Clusters and Economic Development: Theoretical Issues
3. Multi-Level Governance and the Emergence of Regional Innovation Network Policy
4. Learning, Trust and Social Capital
5. Networks and Clusters in the Learning Economy
6. The Clustering Phenomenon in the 'New Economy': an Anatomy of Growth and Further Lessons for Policy
7. Can Clusters be Built? Questions for Policy
8. Knowledge Economies: Here to Stay? Where to go?

O autorze

Phillip Cooke, Cardiff University, UK