1st Edition
Industrial Clusters Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK
1. Industrial clusters in Great Britain: framing the debate
John F. Wilson, Chris Corker and Joe Lane
2. Industrial districts, entrepreneurship and the economic geography of Great Britain, 1851-1911
Harry Smith, Robert J. Bennett and Carry van Lieshout
3. The evolution of business networks and clusters
David Charles
4. The evolution of the North East England electronics sector
David Charles and John F. Wilson
5. Industrial clustering in a peripheral region: Path dependence and creation in the Scottish Highlands
Niall G. MacKenzie & Andrew Perchard
6. Forging ahead – the men behind the industrialisation of the Denbighshire coalfield
Bethan Lloyd Atkinson
7. Occupational change and the new knowledge economy; the case of Coventry city
J. Begley
8. The City of London as an industrial cluster since 1980
Mark Billings & Simon Mollan
9. Knowledge, identity and cooperation in an early industrial cluster: The Potteries in 1775
Joe Lane
10. The Sheffield innovation system 1860-1914: steel, armaments, metallurgy and education
Chris Corker
11. The City of financing regions and industrial clusters in the nineteenth century
Victoria Barnes & Lucy Newton
12. On the periphery? Autonomy, localism and community in a Lancashire cotton weaving district, Harle Syke c.1840-1936
J. Southern
13. Critical perspectives on industrial clusters
Chris Corker, Joe Lane and John F. Wilson
Biography
John F. Wilson is Professor of Business History at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.
Chris Corker is Lecturer in Management at the University of York Management School, UK.
Joe Lane is Lecturer in Strategy at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK.
