1st Edition

Broadening Our Knowledge on Cluster Evolution

Edited By Dirk Fornahl, Robert Hassink, Max-Peter Menzel Copyright 2016
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

Although clusters are regarded as important elements in economic development, the strong focus in the literature on the way clusters function is contrasted with a disregard for their evolutionary development: how clusters actually become clusters, how and why they decline, and how they shift into new fields and transform over time. Although recently new cluster life cycle approaches emerged, both... Read more

1. Broadening Our Knowledge on Cluster Evolution
Dirk Fornahl, Robert Hassink and Max-Peter Menzel

2. Enterprise- and Industry-Level Drivers of Cluster Evolution and Their Outcomes for Clusters from Developed and Less-Developed Countries
Marta Gancarczyk

3. Born to be Sold: Start-ups as Products and New Territorial Life Cycles of Industrialization
Christian Livi and Hugues Jeannerat

4. Adaptation and Change in Creative Clusters: Findings from Vienna’s New Media Sector
Tanja Sinozic and Franz Tödtling

5. Creative Cluster Evolution: The Case of the Film and TV Industries in Seoul, South Korea
Su-Hyun Berg

6. Institutional Context and Cluster Emergence: The Biogas Industry in Southern Sweden
Hanna Martin and Lars Coenen

7. Perspectives on Cluster Evolution: Critical Review and Future Research Issues
Michaela Trippl, Markus Grillitsch, Arne Isaksen and Tanja Sinozic

Biography

Dirk Fornahl, Head of the Centre for Regional and Innovation Economics, University of Bremen, Germany

Robert Hassink, Professor of Economic Geography at Kiel University, Germany, and Visiting Professor in the School of Geography, Politics & Sociology at Newcastle University, UK.

Max-Peter Menzel, Junior Professor of Economic Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany, and Interim Professor of Economic Geography, University of Bayreuth, Germany