Emerging Clusters

Edited by Dirk Fornahl, Professor of Regional Economics, University of Bremen, Sebastian Henn, Professor, Department of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany and Max-Peter Menzel, Department of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

• Contents:1. Emerging Clusters: A Conceptual OverviewMax-Peter Menzel, Sebastian Henn and Dirk FornahlPART I: ACCIDENTS, PATH DEPENDENCY AND STRATEGIC ACTION2. Jacobian Cluster Emergence: Wider Insights from ‘Green Innovation’ Convergence on a Schumpeterian ‘Failure’ Philip Cooke3. Economic Policy and its Impact on the Evolution of Clusters and Spatial Systems Exemplified by German TV Programme Production Ansgar Dorenkamp and Ivo Mossig4. Bridging Ruptures: The Re-emergence of the Antwerp Diamond District After World War II and the Role of Strategic ActionSebastian Henn and Eric LaureysPART II: INSTITUTIONS AND ENDOGENOUS DYNAMICS5. Origins of Human Capital in Clusters: Regional, Industrial and Academic Transitions in Media Clusters in GermanyAnne Otto and Dirk Fornahl6. The Co-evolution of ICT, VC and Policy in Israel During the 1990sGil Avnimelech and Morris Teubal7. Standards as Institutions Supporting the Cluster Emergence Process: The Case of Aquaculture in Chile Paola Perez-AlemanPART III: PATTERNS OF EMERGENCE AND GROWTH8. The Evolution of the Banking Cluster of Amsterdam, 1850–1993: A Survival Analysis Ron Boschma and Floris Ledder9. The Role of the University in the Genesis and Evolution of Research-based Clusters Donald Patton and Martin Kenney10. Sources of ‘Second Generation Growth’: Spin-off Processes in the Emerging Biochip Industries in Jena and BerlinMax-Peter Menzel11. The Emergence and Development of the Cambridge Ink Jet Printing IndustryElizabeth Garnsey, Erik Stam and Brychan ThomasPART IV: CLUSTER EMERGENCE AND EMERGENCE OF CLUSTER POLITICS12. Neither Planned Nor by Chance: How Knowledge-Intensive Clusters Emerge Rolf Sternberg13. Policy Transfer and Institutional Learning: An Evolutionary Perspective on Regional Cluster Policies in GermanyMatthias KieseIndex

‘The empirical data and analysis is rich and well-written and so is the policy section. . . the book provides a valuable addition to the literature of regional clusters and should be included as a must-read for those involved not only in research, but also in policy-making on regional clusters.’