In forschungsintensiven Industrien nimmt die räumliche Konzentration von Akteuren aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik immer größeren Einfluss auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen. Zusätzlich unterstützen strukturpolitische Maßnahmen die Etablierung von Clusterinitiativen, um die...

This contributed volume studies and explains the effect that agglomeration exerts on a firm’s innovation and performance. It presents new cases as well as new topics within the agglomeration phenomenon, exploring also their role under the Great Recession. Beyond the analysis of regions or...

This book provides a coherent and useful framework to explain the formation of agglomeration and the endogenous innovation process of upgrading industrial clusters to the higher R&D. It contains country studies including; China, India, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore

Taking eleven countries in Europe, Canada, South Africa, America, Latin America and Australia, this book discusses recurring barriers to cluster development in the renewable energy sector. The authors look at the real-world dynamics and tensions between stakeholders on the ground, with a...

This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors. It explains the need for multicriteria decision analysis and teaches users how to use recent advances in multicriteria and clustering classification techniques in...

Theoretische Grundlagen -- Untersuchungsdesign und Methodik -- Gesamtwirtschaftliches Umfeld und Entwicklung des Wirtschaftsbereichs -- Standorte und Standortwahl -- Dynamische Entwicklung der rä urn lichen Cluster -- Räumliche Wirkung und Netzwerke bei ausgesuchten Standortfaktoren --...

This book focuses on East Asia, which has been attracting FDI and a centre of industrial agglomeration, and because of this, the production structure in the world has been dynamically transforming. This book analyzes this world trend and provides a framework for strategy that is required not...

This book investigates the dynamics of the management of sustainability in networks and clusters - an area of increasing importance that is neglected by the many studies addressing sustainability at the single-enterprise level. The focus is in particular on projects involving groups of...

This book describes the importance of integration and clustering in creating sustainable economic growth. Modern economic conditions demonstrate the need for governmental stimulation of cluster initiatives in entrepreneurship, and make it necessary to study the experience of developed countries...

Cluster und regionale Netzwerke in Deutschland, Frankreich und der Schweiz -- Management der Initiativen und Umsetzung von Qualitätsstandards -- Umfassende Bestandsaufnahme der Ansprechpersonen in der Trinationalen Metropolregion Oberrhein.