Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition
Title | Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Bröcker |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2012-11-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3540247602 |
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.
Cluster Competition
Title | Cluster Competition PDF eBook |
Author | Camilla Alexandra Hrdy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 2017 |
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There is a fierce regional competition to grow “innovation clusters” going on in the U.S. Many worry states and cities are overspending on innovation rather than focusing on more immediate problems like improving basic infrastructure. For the first time, the federal government has taken action to reduce the costs of regional cluster competition through the America Competes Act's “regional innovation program.” Drawing on patent law theory, I argue the program represents an innovative way to “manage” local investments in innovation. Instead of granting regions exclusive rights over particular clusters, the Competes Act authorizes federal grants for regions that design and disclose winning cluster strategies. In theory, this will encourage regions to specialize in areas where they have a real comparative advantage -- efficient energy in Philadelphia, PA, 3D-printing in Youngstown, OH -- rather than wasting money in a race to be winners in the same technology fields. In addition, it will change the type of innovation that regions invest in, making high-spillover research more attractive through the promise of federal subsidy. Lastly, the statute creates a completely new system for collecting and analyzing data on cluster activity that must be made available to other state and local actors. However, this strategy faces a serious challenge. As in patent law, where inventors may spend more due to the prospect of getting a patent, regions may engage in more rather than less wasteful spending on innovation in the presence of federal subsidies. Therefore, I argue the “carrots” provided in the Competes Act must be accompanied by the “stick” of preemption in limited circumstances.
Innovation Clusters
Title | Innovation Clusters PDF eBook |
Author | Teresa Pavelka |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2014-12-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 365686165X |
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1,0, University of Bayreuth (Lehrstuhl für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement), course: Seminar (Bachelor), language: English, abstract: Clusters are geographic concentrations of various industrial, scientific and governmental actors, and have been found to trigger and improve the innovative performance of firms inside. This paper gives a review of prevailing cluster theories, as well as several examples from the real economy. Knowledge spillovers, inter-firm linkages and reduced business risks for start-up firms present some of the advantages that foster firms’ innovative activity in clusters. The success of prominent clusters such as the Silicon Valley has encouraged governments to support the formation of clusters; however, technological changes might as well lead to failures of clusters. Despite the advances of a globalized economy, physical proximity in clusters has been shown to transmit input for innovation more successfully than virtual innovation networks.
Clusters, Networks, and Innovation
Title | Clusters, Networks, and Innovation PDF eBook |
Author | Stefano Breschi |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 2005-12-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0191515299 |
Governments and regional authorities often express the belief that the key to prosperity and economic expansion is related to the ability of countries to sustain regional clusters of competitiveness and innovation. The book reviews the most important conceptual approaches to the analysis of the emergence, growth and evolution of clusters of innovation. Drawing from the different experiences of industrial districts and high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley, Boston's biotech region, and Hsinchu-Taipei, the contributions in this book offer a broad interpretative framework and policy implications for the creation and strengthening of competitive clusters. Themes include: · the wide variety of existing clusters and the diversity in their emergence and growth; · the international mobility of factors and demand linkages; · the role of different network types and the social setting; · the accumulation of capabilities in key large actors and the importance of spinoffs and new firm formation; · the role of different learning regimes and sectoral specificities; · the importance of social networks, labour mobility, and face-to-face contacts as vehicles of knowledge spillovers. Broad implications are drawn for the design of policies to encourage successful economic clusters in developed and developing clusters.
The Dynamics of Clusters and Innovation
Title | The Dynamics of Clusters and Innovation PDF eBook |
Author | Brigitte Preissl |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2013-04-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3642500110 |
Innovation is the motor of economic change. Over the last fifteen years, researches in innovation processes have emphasised the systemic features of innovation. Whilst innovation system analysis traditionally takes a static institutional approach, cluster analysis focuses on interaction and the dynamics of technology and innovation. First, the volume gives an overview of the different levels of analysis from which the innovation behaviour of firms has been observed in the past. The book then presents a distinct cluster approach as a useful and innovative tool to analyse the configuration and dynamics of networks of actors involved in innovative processes. This approach emphasises the possibilities of enhancing cluster benefits by introducing virtual links between cluster actors. Empirical evidence is provided for the automotive components and the telecommunication industries. By restricting the discussion to Germany and Italy, the authors are able to explore the role that national innovation systems play as a framework in which clusters operate.
Clusters, Networks and Innovation
Title | Clusters, Networks and Innovation PDF eBook |
Author | Stefano Breschi |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 2005-12-22 |
Genre | 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.
Innovation Networks and Clusters
Title | Innovation Networks and Clusters PDF eBook |
Author | Blandine Laperche |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Business enterprises |
ISBN | 9789052016023 |
In Economics, networks are increasingly used to describe the many links created between independent companies, as well as between them and other institutions (universities, banks, venture capital, etc.). In the current global and knowledge-based economy, they can be characterised as knowledge factories and knowledge boosters. They feed the internal processes of innovation (collaborative innovation) or the external processes of innovation, created by the propagation effects that come from inter-firm collaboration. The book explains how innovation networks are at the origin of the production of new knowledge that will be transformed and used in common as well as in separated production processes. This characteristic of networks as knowledge factories gives incentives to further investment in the production of knowledge and ensures the cumulativeness of the innovation process. Some of the authors clearly take a territorial point of view and study how clusters (in different parts of the world: Europe, Eastern Asia and North America) propelled by the quality of the innovation networks they enclose, can be characterised as knowledge pools into which the local actors will be able to draw to reinforce their individual and collective competitiveness. This book also includes analyses of the quality of the networks built within clusters, which may help their identification.