Proximity, Distance and Diversity: Issues on Economic Interaction and Local Development

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ISBN: 9780754640745 | 0754640744
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/28/2005

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This book examines the question of the significance of proximate vs. more distant relationships for economic agents' performance and local economic development, and includes empirical studies from around the world. It suggests that the notions of diversity, innovativeness, maturity and multiple scales should be incorporated into the debates on the significance of proximity for economic performance.

List of Contributors

vii

PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE

Proximity, External Relations, and Local Economic Development

(22)

Arnoud Lagendijk

Paivi Oinas

PART 2: `LOCALISATION': CLUSTERS, INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS, AND ALL THAT - EVIDENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Cultural Industry Cluster Building in Sweden

(22)

Dominic Power

Daniel Hallencreutz

Industrial Districts in a Transitional Economy: The Case of Datang Sock and Stocking Industry in Zhejiang, China

(22)

Jici Wang

Huasheng Zhu

Xin Tong

Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Embeddedness: The Case of Lower Galilee

(20)

Michael Sofer

Izhak Schnell

Networking and Project Organization in the Styrian Automotive Industry

(22)

Franz Todtling

Michaela Trippl

PART 3: ESTABLISHING EXTERNAL RELATIONS: THE SEARCH FOR SPECIALIZED OR DIVERSE COMPETENCES?

Supplier Search in Industrial Clusters: Sheffield Metal Working in the 1990s

111

(18)

H. Doug Watts

Andrew M. Wood

Perry Wardle

Regional Clusters Building on Local and Non-Local Relationships: A European Comparison

129

(24)

Arne Isaksen

The Evolution of Regional Packaging Machinery Clusters in Germany

153

(16)

Ivo Moßig

Glob@lizing the Network Economy: Local Advantage for High-Technology Development

169

(22)

Wen-Cheng Wang

Collaboration, Innovation and Regional Networks: Evidence from the Medical Biotechnology Industry of Greater Vancouver

191

(28)

Kevin Rees

PART 4: ECONOMIC INTERACTION ON MULTIPLE SCALES

The Process of Innovation in Contrasting Industrial Environments

219

(20)

Asbjørn Karlsen

Bjarne Lindeløv

Globalization and the Dynamics of Local Embeddedness in the South Hampshire Electronics Industry

239

(16)

Michael Taylor

Mobility versus Embeddedness: the Role of Proximity in Major Capital Projects

255

(22)

Neil Alderman

Variety of Enterprise Adaptation Strategies in the Emerging Post-Socialist Governance in Vyborg

277

(30)

Riitta Kosonen

PART 5: ADDING VALUE

Towards Understanding Proximity, Distance and Diversity in Economic Interaction and Local Development

307

(26)

Paivi Oinas

Arnoud Lagendijk

Index

333

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