Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts
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My conclusion is that the book as a whole represents a valuable contribution to current debates concerning the role of clusters and geographical proximity in the globalised economy. I find this book both relevant to scholars and policy makers
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- Grete Rusten, University of Bergen, Norway
During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. Les mer
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This book offers a deep insight into the evolution of these systems and the internal-external mechanism of knowledge circulation and learning. This means that the access to external knowledge (information or R&D cooperative research) or to productive networks (global supply chains) is studied in order to describe how external knowledge is absorbed and how local clusters or districts become global systems. It provides a unified approach; showing that existing capabilities expand when locally embedded knowledge is combined with accessible external knowledge. In this view, external knowledge linkages reduce the danger of cognitive 'lock-in' and 'over-embeddedness', which may become important obstacles to local learning and innovation when technological trajectories and global economic conditions change. A selection of international experts
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 448
- ISBN
- 9780415539852
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«
My conclusion is that the book as a whole represents a valuable contribution to current debates concerning the role of clusters and geographical proximity in the globalised economy. I find this book both relevant to scholars and policy makers
»
- Grete Rusten, University of Bergen, Norway