Clusters Facing Competition
The Importance of External Linkages
Published on 22. August 2005
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-7546-4461-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the external sources of industrial cluster competitiveness and examines how they complement, integrate and substitute local, intra-cluster networks. The novelty of this book is to merge the cluster approach with two other conceptual approaches, which have become increasingly popular in cluster and development studies: on the one hand, the Global Value Chains and their role in cluster upgrading processes; on the other, the National Systems of Innovation (NSIs) and their role in supporting the development of clusters in a national territory. The book explores these issues with empirical evidence from different countries in Latin America, Asia and the industrialised world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-4461-3 (9780754644613)
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Persons
Dr Elisa Giuliani is from SPRU, (Science and Technology Policy Research Centre), at the University of Sussex, UK. She is also Research Fellow for the European University Institute in Florence and the Faculty of Economics, University of Pisa, Italy. Professor Roberta Rabellotti is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy. Professor Meine Pieter Van Dijk is Professor of Urban Management at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Content
Introduction, Elisa Giuliani, Roberta Rabellotti, Meine Pieter van Dijk; Upgrading in global value chains: lessons from Latin American clusters, Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti; Making value chain governance work for the implementation of quality, labour and environmental standards: upgrading challenges in the footwear industry, Lizbeth Navas-Aleman and Luiza Bazan; Cooperation and upgrading in 'small' global chains: Vietnamese and Danish garment firms, Henrik Schaumburg-Muller; Challenges to Vietnamese firms in the global garment and textile value chain, John Thoburn, Khalid Nadvi, Chris Edwards and Markus Eberhardt; Multinational subsidiaries and manufacturing clusters in Guangdong, China, Filip De Beule, Daniel van den Bulcke and Luodan Xu; Lead firms and clusters in the North and in the South: a comparison of the aerospace industry in Montreal and Sao Jose dos Campos, Andrea Goldstein; Technological learning in a Chilean wine cluster and its linkages with the national system of innovation, Elisa Giuliani; How do local institutions contribute to fostering competitiveness of industrial clusters? the upgrading process in the Italian eyewear system, Francesca Gambarotto and Stefano Solari; A life cycle model for the creation of national venture industries: comparing the U.S. and Israeli experiences, Gil Avnimelech, Martin Kenney and Morris Teubal; Cluster governance in an emerging city-wide ICT cluster in Nanjing, China, Meine Pieter van Dijk and Quanscheng Wang; Industrial clusters in Mexico, Alejandro Davila Flores; Firms interaction and industrial development: a simulation model, Tommaso Ciarli and Marco Valente; Clusters facing competition: some concluding remarks, Elisa Giuliani and Roberta Rabellotti; Index.