Beyond Innovation Hotspots

Clusters for Competitiveness and Transformation in Real Regions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvMatthias Kiese,Rasmus C. Beck,Dirk Fornahl,Christian Ketels

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This expertly edited book investigates the role of specific clusters and cluster policies for the competitiveness and development of regions facing stagnation and decline, or the challenges of catching up or transforming their economic structures.Bringing together a team of skilled contributors, Beyond Innovation Hotspots demonstrates the importance of context-specific policy responses and effective institutional frameworks to enhance regional development. Chapters examine key case studies from Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany and Central Europe, to illustrate the complexity and diversity of challenges faced by different regions and the strategies used to address them. Particular attention is paid to the question of how clusters and cluster policies can help these regions to maintain or regain their competitiveness in the face of the twin changes of digitalisation and sustainability.Scholars and students of cluster policy research, economic geography, entrepreneurship, urban and regional economics, and technological change and innovation will find the book a crucial resource. It is also beneficial to regional policymakers and practitioners looking to design, implement and evaluate their own strategies. Additionally, local stakeholders in clusters can use the lessons in this book for the development of their own organisations.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-17
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035315604

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Edited by Matthias Kiese, Professor of Human Geography (Urban and Regional Economics), Institute of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum, Rasmus C. Beck, CEO, Duisburg Business and Innovation and Honorary Professor of Urban Transformation, EBZ Business School, Dirk Fornahl, Professor of Regional Economics, University of Bremen, Germany and Christian Ketels, Senior Fellow, House of Governance, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Contents1 Introduction to Beyond Innovation Hotspots 1Matthias Kiese, Rasmus C. Beck, Dirk Fornahl and Christian Ketels2 A typology of declining clusters in thin regions:socioeconomic challenges and policy responses 17Mads Bruun Ingstrup, Arnault Morisson and Heike Mayer3 The digital transformation of financial services: evolutionand competitiveness of Bulgaria’s emerging fintech cluster 34Deyan Radev and Georgi Penev4 Sleepy villages and hidden champions: clusters and theirinterconnections in the Black Forest 59Hansjörg Drewello and Nina Kulawik5 Evolutionary processes of cluster policies inpost-industrial regions: implementing the smartspecialisation strategy in the Ruhr Metropolis 82Rasmus C. Beck, Dmitri Domanski and Julia Frohne6 Participation and cooperation: a trade union perspectiveon structural policy for preventive transition 105Jörg Weingarten7 Optimising models for cluster organisations: learningsfrom Denmark 130Bolette van Ingen Bro and Merete Daniel Nielsen8 A stakeholder-oriented approach to managing cluster relationships 145Murat Akpinar9 Two worlds apart? Motives, forms and results of science–industry collaboration in cluster organisations – evidencefrom the Visegrad countries 165Dominika Kuberska and Marta Mackiewicz