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...

Konzeptionelle Grundlagen -- Forschungsdesign -- Koordinationsmechanismen des Wissenstransfers -- Wissensakkumulation durch Wissenstransfer -- Implikationen und Gestaltungsempfehlungen -- Fazit und Ausblick.

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 provides a theoretical framework to explain the formation and growth of economic agglomerations and industrial clusters from the viewpoint of spatial economics, and goes on to present current examples of clustering and policy in different economies

Chemikalienregulierung und Innovationen zum nachhaltigen Wirtschaften — konzeptionelle Ansätze -- Einführung -- Der Einfluss umweltpolitischer Regulierung auf Innovationen -- Auf der Suche nach dem innovationsfördernden Politikmuster für die neue europäische Chemikalienpolitik -- Die...

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...

This volume looks at the critical issues of industrial policy and sustainability. It assesses the gap between how developed and developing countries have integrated sustainability issues in their industrial policies, and how they should have ideally done so. The book looks at the specific issues...