"Handbook of Research on Innovation and Clusters: Cases and Policies" ed. by Charlie Karlsson (Repost)

This Handbook is intended to provide a comprehensive information source for scientists, students, policy makers and cluster managers keen to have an up-to-date overview of clustering in high-tech industries, cluster case studies and cluster policies.

Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
PART ONE INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CLUSTERING OF HIGH-TECH FIRMS
2 The contribution of clustering to innovation: from Porter I agglomeration to Porter II export base theories
3 Entrepreneurial dynamics and the origin and growth of high-tech clusters
4 High-tech firms and the dynamics of innovative industrial clusters
5 Employment growth in ICT clusters: new evidence from Great Britain
6 Inter-firm networks in high-tech clusters
7 Venture capital ermergence and startup-intensive high-tech cluster development: evidence from Israel
8 Knowledge clusters and university–industry cooperation
9 Innovation-specific agglomeration economies and the spatial clustering of innovative firms
PART TWO CASE STUDIES
10 The clustering of software consultancy in Oslo: reason for and effects of clustering
11 Labour market dynamics and the development of the ICT cluster in the Stockholm region
12 The clustering of biotechnology firms in Scotland
13 The Saskatoon agricultural biotechnology cluster
14 Networks and geographic clustering as sources of MNE advantages: foreign and indigenous professional service firms in Central London
15 Leipzig’s media cluster
16 Understanding social and spatial divisions in the new economy: new media clusters and the digital divide
17 Innovation, collaboration and learning in regional clusters: a study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex
18 The entrepreneurial event revisited: firm formation in a regional context
19 Spatial and functional clustering: a comparative analysis of the Baltimore and Washington DC metropolitan regions in the US
PART THREE CLUSTER POLICIES
20 Institutions and clusters
21 The role of civic capital and civic associations in cluster policy
22 Cluster policies and cluster strategies
23 From biotechnology clusters to bioscience megacentres: related variety and economic geography
24 Silicon somewhere: is there a need for cluster policy?
Index

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