Complexity and industrial clusters : dynamics and models in theory and practice / Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Marco Fortis (editors)
The system of Italian industrial districts seems to have produced a "model of capitalism" that is different from those of the "Anglo-Saxon" and "Rhine Valley". However, the Italian model - which might be defined as "horizontal or network capitalism"--Is not li...
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: From Specific Industrial Cases to a General Economic
- Model?
- Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Marco Fortis 1
- I. Complexity and Economic Dynamics
- What Is Complexity?
- Murray Gell-Mann 13
- Complex Adaptive Systems and Spontaneous Emergence
- John H. Holland 25
- The Industrial Cluster as a Complex Adaptive System
- Enzo Rullani 35
- II. General Models of Industrial Cluster Dynamics
- Complexity and Local Interactions: Towards a Theory of Industrial
- Districts
- David A. Lane 65
- From Marshall's to the Italian "Industrial Districts". A Brief Critical
- Reconstruction
- Giacom O Becattini 83
- Diversity, Not Specialization: The Ties That Bind the (New) Industrial
- District
- Charles F. Sabel 107
- Competitive and Synergic Behaviours in the Development of Industrial
- Clusters: Ecological Modelling and Empirical Evidence
- Marco Fortis and Mario A. Maggioni 123
- On the Ubiquitous Nature of Agglomeration Economies and Their
- Diverse Determinants: Some Notes
- Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi and Giorgio Fagiolo 167
- III. Success Cases Around the World
- The Entrepreneurial Spark: Individual Agents and the Formation of
- Innovative Clusters
- Maryann P. Feldman and Johanna Francis 195
- From Exogenous to Endogenous Local Development: The Cases of
- the Toulouse and Sophia Antipolis Technopoles
- Christian Longhi 213
- Biotechnology Development in Germany: The Case of Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Francesco Salamini, Anke Sohn and Hartmut Thomas 239
- Support for Technology-Based Firms: The Role Played by Property-Based
- Science Parks
- Don Siegel, Paul Westhead and Mike Wright 249
- High-Tech Industrial Clusters in the Asian Countries: The Case of the
- Electronics Industry in the Hsinchu-Taipei Region
- Kung Wang 267
- Financial Markets, Industrial Clusters and Small and Medium-Size
- Enterprises
- Angelo Tantazzi 291.