A life cycle for clusters? : the dynamics of agglomeration, change, and adaptation /
Kerstin Press.
- xiii, 245 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas ; 24 cm.
- Contributions to economics, 1431-1933 .
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Incluye bibliografía (páginas 227-245).
Cover -- Table of contents -- Part I: The rationale for studying cluster dynamics -- 1 Introduction: Clusters, change and adaptation -- 1.1 A Janus-faced phenomenon: Cluster prosperity and decline -- 1.2 Goals and contribution of the study -- 1.3 Course of the study -- Part II: Literature review -- The benefits of co-location -- 2 Stability and change: Driving cluster development -- 2.1 Novelty, uncertainty and transaction costs: Industry-location life cycles -- 2.2 Symbiosis, habitat and external events: Dynamics of firm populations -- 2.3 Externalities and trade costs: The New Economic Geography -- 2.4 Increasing returns and firm location choice: Spatial path dependence -- 2.5 Summary and critique -- 3 The nature of the beast -- On the notion of agglomeration externalities -- 3.1 The advantages from co-location -- 3.2 On Districts, Porterian ´Clusters´, Innovation Systems and Milieux -- 3.3 Summary and critique -- Part III: Towards a complexity perspective on clusters -- 4 Clusters, change and adaptation: Sticky places in slippery space? -- 4.1 The nature of clusters: Agents, interdependence and co-ordination -- 4.2 Adaptation: Decentralised problem solving by interdependent agents -- 4.3 The nature of cluster adaptation and resulting model requirements -- 5 Modelling adaptation in clusters -- The promise of complexity theory -- 5.1 Clusters as complex adaptive systems -- 5.2 Agents, interdependence and fitness: Introducing the N/K model -- 5.3 Clusters as N/K systems: Parameter definition and system dynamics -- Part IV: Model development -- Clusters as complex adaptive systems -- 6 Micromotives and macrobehaviour -- Dynamics of N/K systems -- 6.1 Agent dynamics: Structure, Search and Selection -- 6.2 The dynamics of agent groups -- 6.3 Co-evolving agent populations: Self organisation and performance -- 6.4 The behaviour of N/K systems: Agent, group and aggregate dynamics -- 7 Clusters as co-evolving N/K systems -- 7.1 Parameters, agent, group and syst