Innovation System Frontiers - Cluster Networks and Global Value

Acknowledgments

Preface

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 The Economics of Regionalisation vs. Globalisation

1.2 Bridging the Gap: Places and Extra-territorial Spaces

1.3 The Fragmentation of Production – Despatialisation?

1.4 Specifying the Research Problem

1.5 Overview

Chapter 2 Systemic Innovation and Nation States

2.1 Knowledge, Technology, Innovation and Nation States

2.2 Technology, Competitiveness and Systems

2.3 The Historical and Continuing Importance of Nations

2.4 Nations in a Changing World: Weaknesses of NIS

Chapter 3 Innovative Regions, Clusters and Milieux

3.1 Innovation Territories

3.2 Locating Clusters

3.3 The Geography of Agglomeration

3.4 Cluster Based Theories of the Drivers of Proximity

3.5 Cluster Boundaries and Extra-territorial Linkages

3.6 Multi-spatial Production and Innovation Spaces

Chapter 4 Beyond Borders: Trade and Networks

4.1 Traded Interdependencies Beyond Borders

4.2 Trade, Borders and the Sourcing of Products

4.3 Proximity and Multi-Spatial Innovation Systems

4.4 Clusters, GPNs or Multi-Spatial Cluster Networks?

Chapter 5 Measuring Inter-Cluster Interdependencies

5.1 Identifying Multi-Spatial Innovation Systems

5.2 Multi-Country Input-Output Data

5.3 Inter-Regional I-O Modelling

5.4 Data Analysis: Chaps. 6–9

Chapter 6 Clustering Internationalisation

6.1 Dependence on Imported Components

6.2 Complexity, Clustering and Imports

6.3 Imports, Science and Scale

Chapter 7 Cluster Complexes: Auto Production

7.1 The Significance of Automotive Production Systems

7.2 Background: A Traditional Perspective of Exports

7.3 The Evolution of the Inter-cluster Networking

7.4 Techno-Organisational 5 Context of Auto Production

7.5 Implications and Conclusions

Chapter 8 Cluster Complexes: Civil Aerospace

8.1 Aerospace: The Techno-Organisational Context

8.2 Cluster Networking

8.3 The Beginnings of the Future of Aerospace Geography

8.4 Implications and Conclusions

Chapter 9 Cluster Complexes: Electronics and ICT

9.1 Introduction: Structures of Interdependencies

9.2 The Third Technological Revolution: ICT

9.3 ICT Cluster Networks

9.4 Contemporary and Emerging Nodes of Global ICT

9.5 Conclusions and Implications

Chapter 10 Conclusions on the Architecture of Economies

10.1 Atolls of Innovation or Something Else?

10.2 Systems of Systems: Sectoral Footprints

10.3 Conclusions and Implications

References

Index