Author : Stefano Breschi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199275556
Examining the role of the much-vaunted concepts of regional clusters in the prosperity and economic expansion of countries, this work looks at the different experiences of industrial districts and high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley, Boston's biotech region, and Hsinchu-Taipei.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2001-06-11
Category :
ISBN : 9264193383
Policies to stimulate innovation at national and local levels must both build on and contribute to the dynamics of innovative clusters. This book presents a series of papers written by policy makers and academic experts in the field, that demonstrate why and how this can be done.
Author : Johannes Bröcker
Publisher : Boom Koninklijke Uitgevers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2003-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540009993
The world's leading experts contribute to our understanding of regional innovation, cluster formation and the factors that influence regional productivity and innovative performance. The text improves our understanding of the reasons why, how and where innovation clusters emerge, as well as the factors that determine their respective success or failure. In doing so, it provides a timely and comprehensive picture on innovation, location, networks and clusters as important means in an environment of intensifying interregional competition. The book is written for professional researchers as well as for students and practitioners in politics, business and consultancy.
Author : Douglas Zhihua Zeng
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821373072
Africa is on the move, demonstrating in recent years a significant potential for economic growth. Although the region still faces many challenges, it is also generating pockets of economic vitality in the form of enterprise clusters that are contributing to national, regional, and local productivity. Through case examples from Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book provides an understanding of how these dynamic enterprise clusters were formed and have evolved, and how knowledge, human capital, and technology have contributed to their success.
Author : B. Asheim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230362427
This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies. Successful experiences in Scandanavia and southern European countries are examined, with insightful policy lessons extracted from each case.
Author : Michelle McLeod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135036020
The receipt of knowledge is a key ingredient by which the tourism sector can adjust and adapt to its dynamic environment. However although its importance has long been recognised the fragmentation within the sector, largely as a result of it being comprised of small and medium sized businesses, makes understanding knowledge management challenging. This book applies knowledge management and social network theories to the business of tourism to shed light on successful operations of tourism knowledge networks. It contributes specifically to understanding a network perspective of the tourism sector, the information needs of tourism businesses, social network dynamics of tourism business operation, knowledge flows within the tourism sector and the transformation of the tourism sector through knowledge networks. Social Network Analysis is applied to fully explore the growth and maintenance of tourism knowledge networks and the relationships between tourism sector stakeholders in relation to their knowledge requirements. Knowledge Networks and Tourism will be valuable reading for all those interested in successful operations of tourism knowledge networks.
Author : Dr Annie Green
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1909507776
Author : Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
Publisher : UNU
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This book examines the incidence and role of clusters as a viable and increasingly important form of industrial organization in Africa. It presents a series of theoretically grounded case studies that analyze clusters in different industrial sectors and at different levels of economic development. The overall aim is to improve understanding of how local clusters can be transformed into local systems of innovation and how local clusters can be better connected to global actors. The authors draw out implications for policy and practice and provide guidance to governments, private sector associations, and non-governmental organizations.--Publisher's description.
Author : Raghda El Ebrashi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1802628738
Industry clusters promote innovation in the Arab World, through collaboration among businesses, research institutions, and governments. Benefits include the creation and sharing of knowledge, professional networking, access to spill-over knowledge, and specialized talent pools.
Author : João J. M. Ferreira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317509595
Research interest in the service sector has boomed in recent years as deindustrialisation became entrenched. Instead of being regarded as merely supplementary to traditional industry and manufacturing, services have generated progressively rising levels of growth in developed economies while at the same time coming to be recognised as major drivers of innovation. Among the factors which have helped service companies notch up swifter growth rates than all other sectors are the outsourcing of such services by other sectors, including the development of information and communication technologies, and changes to the regulatory, legal and market frameworks as well as globalisation and internationalisation. The result is a cluster of highly innovative firms which can loosely be grouped under the heading of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS). Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness charts the development of these firms and explores their success through four mutually linked parts: KIBS and industrial dynamics; KIBS and their context; KIBS and their contribution to regional competitiveness and economic development; and finally, KIBS and public policy. This book is suitable for researchers and policy makers interested in the rise of these influential actors and their influence on regional competitiveness.
