Innovation clusters and interregional competition / Johannes Bröcker, Dirk Dohse, Rüdiger Soltwedel, editors.

Papers presented to the International Workshop on ´Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition´ hosted by the Regional Economics Department of the Kiel Institute for World Economics in Nov. 2001.

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_ Clusters and competition as engines of innovation - an introduction / Johannes Bröcker, Dirk Dohse, Rüdiger Soltwedel -- PART I: GEOGRAPHY AND INNOVATION -- Globalization, innovation and the strategic management of places / David B. Audretsch -- Regional innovation and learning systems, clusters, and local and global value chains / Philip Cooke -- Networks and technological change in regional clusters / Riccardo Cappellin -- How and why does the efficiency of regional innovation systems differ? / Michael Fritsch -- PART II: THE ANATOMY OF CLUSTERS -- Regional clusters: what we know and what we should know / Michael J. Enright -- Demography of clusters - findings from the cluster meta-study / Claas van der Linde -- Drivers of economic growth: the role of innovative clusters / Jean Guinet -- PART III: IDENTIFYING AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES -- Productivity and the density of regional clusters / Rui Baptista -- Agglomeration wage differential reconsidered: an investigation using German micro data 1984-1977 / Joachim Möller, Anette Haas -- Skills and clusters / Antonio Ciccone, Federico Cingano -- PART IV: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS -- Corporate governance of cluster development agencies: the case for market orientation / Piero Formica -- Unions, innovation and scale / Tod D. Rutherford -- Big government in a small world: the effect of public expenditure on economic growth / Martijn R.E. Brons, Henri L.F. de Groot, Peter Nijkamp -- Economic innovations depend on political innovations: on deregulating the political process / Reiner Eichenberger -- PART V: CLUSTER-BASED INNOVATION POLICIES -- Territorial competition: lessons for (innovation) policy / Paul C. Cheshire -- New firms, regional development and the cluster approach - what can technology policies achieve? / Rolf Sternberg -- Taking regions seriously: recent innovations in German technology policy / Dirk Dohse.