Economics of Regional Clusters

Edited by Uwe Blien, Institute for Employment Research and Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and Gunther Maier, WU Wien, University of Economics and Business, Austria

• Contents:1. The Starting PointUwe Blien and Gunther Maier2. Innovation Dynamics and the Structure and Evolution of Industrial ClustersSimona Iammarino and Philip McCann3. First Steps Towards a Critical Appraisal of ClustersAndré Torre4. A Network Based Approach Towards Industry ClusteringJuan C. Duque and Sergio J. Rey5. Industry-specific Spatial Agglomerations in GermanyThomas Brenner6. Sectoral Concentration, Business Networks and Innovative Competences in East Germany – An Empirical Approach to Identify Economic ClustersMartin T.W. Rosenfeld, Peter Franz and Gerhard Heimpold7. Clusters and the Spatial Structure of Wages in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil): A Multilevel ApproachLeonardo Monteiro Monasterio8. Measuring Specialisation and Concentration in Regional Clusters – An Empirical Analysis for Eastern BavariaJoachim Möller and Nicole Litzel9. Inter-Firm Relations and Economic Clustering in the Dutch Randstad RegionFrank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger and Otto Raspe10. The Contribution of New and Young Firms to the Economic Development of Clusters in Germany: Comparative Analysis of a Growing, a Mature and a Declining ClusterAnne Otto and Stefan Köhler11. On Building Clusters versus Leveraging Synergies in the Design of Innovation Policy for Developing EconomiesEdward Feser12. Geographic Concentration of Sectors in the German Economy: Some Unpleasant Macroeconomic Evidence for Regional Cluster PolicyBjörn Alecke, Christoph Alsleben, Frank Scharr and Gerhard Untiedt13. Clusters and Networks. . . Their Spell Has By No Means Been Broken!Martin Wrobel14. Cluster Approaches to Local Economic Development: Conceptual Remarks and Case Studies from Lower Saxony, Germany Matthias KieseIndex

'. . . this book will be of greatest interest to empirical researchers who wish to stay up-to-date with the recent work from both sides of the Atlantic. The blend of methods, empirics, and policy will also be of value to researchers that are interested in understanding the policy context of their research.'