Pathways to High-Tech Valleys and Research Triangles - Innovative Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Transfer and Cluster Formation in Europe and the United States (Hardcover, VIII, 311pp)

Silicon Valley and the industrial districts of Italy, where shared identity, superior skills, regional specialization and trust-based networking among local firms have produced dynamic and flexible ecosystems, are inspiring examples of the successful promotion of thriving technology and business clusters. Cluster studies, besides acknowledging (the potential of) concentration and spill-overs in a dynamic network of larger companies and new start-up firms, also pay attention to the importance of investors, universities and other supportive institutions that contribute to the international and longer-term competitiveness of local industry clusters.

This book looks at why certain regions are successful in creating an innovative technology cluster (with chapters on Silicon Valley and the Italian Food districts) and why aspiring communities and districts seek to learn from those examples and create an internationally successful region or sector (with chapters on the Dutch Biopartner program to stimulate entrepreneurship in the life sciences, on high-tech Israel and on the Italian Slow Food Movement). In some cases internationally renowned universities and/or research laboratories inspire engineers and scientists to become entrepreneurs and take the lead in cluster development (e.g. in the chapters on Food Valley Wageningen, the Knowledge Pearl Leuven-Flanders and the Scandinavian Oresund cluster). In other cases indigenous flagship firms, collaborating with each other and outsourcing many activities to smaller companies, may act as a regiona (TM)s catalyst (e.g. in the chapters on Flanders Vegetable Valley, the Dutch horticultural industry and the Defence Diversification Agency in theUK). Chapters on North Carolinaa (TM)s Research Triangle Park and the recent initiative to stimulate innovativeness in East Netherlands show that also an active government can stimulate emerging clusters by making local resources and funds available (e.g. risk capital, high-quality infrastructure), attracting foreign firms to invest and building ties between the private sector, knowledge institutions and local authorities.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Wageningen UR Frontis Series, 24
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	July 2008
Editors:	Willem Hulsink • J.J.M. Dons
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
Edition:	VIII, 311pp
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-8336-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Entrepreneurship Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Research & development management
LSN:	1-4020-8336-X
Barcode:	9781402083365

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