Wixted Innovation System Frontiers

Cluster Networks and Global Value
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-540-92786-0
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten

Reihe: Advances in Spatial Science

Recent economic transformations in the world economy are progressing in two divergent directions - international production fragmentation and industrial agglomeration. Based on extensive data analysis and using models of interdependencies between key economies, this book analyses innovation systems that cross national borders. It is shown that technological complexity is an important factor in the formation of highly specific production networks, and why, for a number of production systems, fragmentation and clustering are two sides of the same coin. By outlining the picture of a world economy structured around networks of clusters and joined together through systems of linkages of components, people and knowledge flows, the author helps to promote a better understanding of recent economic transformations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wixted, Brian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;7
2;Preface;8
3;Contents;9
4;Chapter 1 Introduction;13
4.1;1.1 The Economics of Regionalisation vs. Globalisation;13
4.2;1.2 Bridging the Gap: Places and Extra-territorial Spaces;14
4.3;1.3 The Fragmentation of Production – Despatialisation?;16
4.4;1.4 Specifying the Research Problem;18
4.5;1.5 Overview;23
5;Chapter 2 Systemic Innovation and Nation States;25
5.1;2.1 Knowledge, Technology, Innovation and Nation States;25
5.2;2.2 Technology, Competitiveness and Systems;26
5.3;2.3 The Historical and Continuing Importance of Nations;35
5.4;2.4 Nations in a Changing World: Weaknesses of NIS;40
6;Chapter 3 Innovative Regions, Clusters and Milieux;45
6.1;3.1 Innovation Territories;45
6.2;3.2 Locating Clusters;47
6.3;3.3 The Geography of Agglomeration;51
6.4;3.4 Cluster Based Theories of the Drivers of Proximity;56
6.5;3.5 Cluster Boundaries and Extra-territorial Linkages;64
6.6;3.6 Multi-spatial Production and Innovation Spaces;69
7;Chapter 4 Beyond Borders: Trade and Networks;71
7.1;4.1 Traded Interdependencies Beyond Borders;71
7.2;4.2 Trade, Borders and the Sourcing of Products;72
7.3;4.3 Proximity and Multi-Spatial Innovation Systems;90
7.4;4.4 Clusters, GPNs or Multi-Spatial Cluster Networks?;95
8;Chapter 5 Measuring Inter-Cluster Interdependencies;100
8.1;5.1 Identifying Multi-Spatial Innovation Systems;100
8.2;5.2 Multi-Country Input-Output Data;107
8.3;5.3 Inter-Regional I-O Modelling;108
8.4;5.4 Data Analysis: Chaps. 6–9;116
9;Chapter 6 Clustering Internationalisation;118
9.1;6.1 Dependence on Imported Components;118
9.2;6.2 Complexity, Clustering and Imports;124
9.3;6.3 Imports, Science and Scale;134
10;Chapter 7 Cluster Complexes: Auto Production;136
10.1;7.1 The Significance of Automotive Production Systems;136
10.2;7.2 Background: A Traditional Perspective of Exports;137
10.3;7.3 The Evolution of the Inter-cluster Networking;140
10.4;7.4 Techno-Organisational 5 Context of Auto Production;150
10.5;7.5 Implications and Conclusions;156
11;Chapter 8 Cluster Complexes: Civil Aerospace;158
11.1;8.1 Aerospace: The Techno-Organisational Context;158
11.2;8.2 Cluster Networking;160
11.3;8.3 The Beginnings of the Future of Aerospace Geography;167
11.4;8.4 Implications and Conclusions;172
12;Chapter 9 Cluster Complexes: Electronics and ICT;175
12.1;9.1 Introduction: Structures of Interdependencies;175
12.2;9.2 The Third Technological Revolution: ICT;176
12.3;9.3 ICT Cluster Networks;181
12.4;9.4 Contemporary and Emerging Nodes of Global ICT;191
12.5;9.5 Conclusions and Implications;199
13;Chapter 10 Conclusions on the Architecture of Economies;201
13.1;10.1 Atolls of Innovation or Something Else?;201
13.2;10.2 Systems of Systems: Sectoral Footprints;207
13.3;10.3 Conclusions and Implications;210
14;References;215
15;Index;235