clusters

The working paper focuses on the process whereby one can understand how the contemporary structure, strengths and frailties of the Toronto multimedia cluster reflect an industrial and institutional experience.

The working paper explores the factors that contribute to the dynamics of cluster formation within regions across Canada. The report also incorporates locational factors critical to economic geography alongside institutional and associational dimensions that are a main pre-occupation of political science and public policy.

The report from Carnegie Mellon Center for Economic Development seeks to understand how universities impact the development of regional industry clusters. It assesses both the factors of the university and the factors of the cluster that are vital to successful university-industry cluster development.

The report draws on analysis of the effectiveness of cluster interventions and sets out to determine how local policymakers can help clusters flourish. The report is divided into two sections, providing advice and examples.

The study by The Brookings Institute concludes that clusters of high-tech industries can be major sources of economic growth. The author assembles a county- level panel dataset to explore the effects of science parks on job growth and venture capital.

The paper contributes to the growing literature on industrial clustering in developing countries. The authors focus on one geographical scale—the metropolis—and identify patterns and discuss processes of industrial clustering at that scale.

This report presents cluster employment, job creation, job loss and cluster overlap for the economy of Alabama. It begins with the state as a whole and presents the state’s cluster employment for the year 2001, job creation and loss for the years 1990-2001, cluster overlap for the year 2001, and subcluster employment.

According to the author, once Poland joins the European Union, competition in all sectors of economy, espe-cially in the sector of agriculture, will greatly intensify within the wider and more de-manding market. The paper describes two types of clusters, already well developed in the Lublin Region, their short histories, goals, results and, eventually, their role in developing local democracy

The report provides an overview of EDAs lessons about cluster implementation, along with examples appropriate for the Research Triangle region to consider and offers suggestions for how the Research Triangle region should move forward in a cluster implementation strategy.

The Cluster Initiative Greenbook was presented at the TCI conference in Gothenburg. Among other things, it presents the outcome of a survey of more than 250 cluster initiatives across the world.