clusters

Industry Clusters Shape Texas Economy

January 01, 2007

This report uses clusters analysis based on employment numbers to examine the economy of Texas. The states economy flourished in the 1990s, took a hard hit in the 2001 recession and bounced back beginning in mid-2003. The states four major metros and its border cities also went through the expansion and contraction, albeit at different paces.

The Tenth Districts Defining Industries: Changes and Opportunities for Rural Communities

January 01, 2007

The brief looks at the potential growth of certain industries in the Tenth District of the U.S. Federal Reserve. It identifies emerging industries that might be growth sectors for the district and its rural areas, including telecommunications, office administration, software design and medical diagnostics.

Making Sense of Clusters: Regional Competitiveness and Economic Development

January 01, 2006

This discussion paper reviews the academic literature on industry clusters. It explains what clusters are, why they matter for regional economic development policy, and how to use cluster analysis as a guide to policy and practice.

Networks and Heterogeneous Performance of Cluster Firms

January 01, 2006

This paper explores the relationship existing among the heterogeneous nature of firms in industrial clusters, their structural position in knowledge networks and their performance. Following the rising interest for spatially agglomerated industrial firms and their learning and innovative potential, the paper shows empirically that the performance of firms in clusters is related with firm-level knowledge endowments and their position in the knowledge network using firm-level data on three wine clusters.

Bangalore Cluster: Evolution, Growth and Challenges

January 01, 2006

This paper pools together evidence to explore reasons why Bangalore emerged as a high-tech cluster and the nature of advantages that has contributed to its growth.

Technological Agglomeration and the Emergence of Clusters and Networks in Nanotechnology

January 01, 2006

Based on the analysis of two clusters in nanotechnologies (MESA+ in the Netherlands and Minatec in Grenoble in France), the paper examines the emergence and effects of technological agglomeration: The social and technical arrangements of a regional centres for nanotechnology both enable and constrain the ongoing activities and research lines that can be followed. Technology platforms and their co-location are a pre-requisite for

Agglomeration, Diversity and Regional Growth

January 01, 2006

The objective of this paper is to empirically examine the importance of the structure of agglomeration on productivity and growth. The authors include the degree of co-agglomeration of similar industries as an explanatory variable in the empirical analysis, while simultaneously controlling for the degree of industry-specific agglomeration. The empirical analysis confirms a positive statistical relationship between interdependent and co-located industries on labour productivity.

Cluster-Based Industrial Development: A View from East Asia

January 01, 2006

The author formulates an endogenous model of cluster-based industrial development, based on case studies in Japan, Taiwan, and China, where the initiation phase is followed by the quantity expansion phase through imitation and subsequently by the quality improvement phase through innovation.

The Importance of Clusters for Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Sourcing

January 01, 2006

This paper examines the link between cluster development and inward foreign direct investment. The conventional policy approach has been to assume that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) can stimulate significant clustering activity, thus generating significant spillovers. This paper investigates if clusters can generate significant productivity spillovers from FDI, this only occurs in pre-existing clusters.

A Regional Typology of innovation Capacities in New Member States and Candidate Countries

January 01, 2006

This report attempts to define the innovative capacity of regions within prospective member states of the European Union.

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