Boosting Innovation [electronic resource]: The Cluster Approach /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,Issuing body.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
1999.
 Both firms, keen to improve their competitiveness, and governments, keen to exploit new sources of economic and social progress, need to understand how innovation works in order to better stimulate it. The paradox of innovation is that it uses co-operation to enhance competition and to link many different actors in innovative clusters. In a knowledge-based economy, these clusters of innovative firms form around sources of knowledge. They are based on a sophisticated infrastructure in which knowledge is developed, shared and exchanged, and are characterised by highly concentrated and effective links between entrepreneurs, investors and researchers. Clusters can take a variety of forms, depending on their main technological and commercial areas of specialisation. In most cases they operate within localised geographical areas and interact within larger innovation systems at the regional, national and international level. With globalisation, dynamic clusters are becoming key factors in a country's capacity to attract the international investment that generates new technological expertise, to interest investors in innovation (venture capital, etc.) and to benefit from the international mobility of skilled personnel. This book reviews the latest economic research on these issues, shows how technology policy makers in OECD countries are making practical use of the concept of clusters and suggests how government policies to foster innovation might best be refocused.
Introduction by Jean Guinet -- Chapter 1. Cluster Analysis and Cluster-Based Policy Making in OECD Countries: An Introduction to the Theme by Theo J. A. Roelandt and Pim den Hertog -- Chapter 2. Identifying Clusters of Innovative Acitvity: A New Approach and a Toolbox by Chris DeBresson and Xiaoping Hu -- Chapter 3. Norwegian Input-Output Clusters and Innovation Patterns by Johan Hauknes -- Chapter 4. Mapping Innovative Clusters in National Innovation Systems by Alfred Spielkamp and Katrin Vopel -- Chapter 5. Clustering as a New Growth Strategy for Regional Economies? A Discussion of New Forms of Regional Industrial Policy in the United Kingdom by Arnoud Lagendijk and David Charles -- Chapter 6. The Disappearing Trick: Clusters in the Australian Economy by Jane Marceau -- Chapter 7. The Ottawa High-Tech Cluster: Policy or Luck? by Roger Heath -- Chapter 8. The Emerging Information and Communication Cluster in the Netherlands by Pim den Hertog and Sven Maltha -- Chapter 9. Innovation Processes and Knowledge Flows in the Information and Communication Technologies Cluster in Spain by Christina Chaminade -- Chapter 10. Industry Clusters: A Methodology and Frameowrk for Regional Development Policy in the United States by Ed M. Bergman and Ed J. Feser -- Chapter 11. Cluster and Network Development Projects in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned through the UNIDO Experience by Giopvanna Ceglie, Michele Clara and Marco Dini -- Chapter 12. Studies of Clusters as the Basis for Industrial and Technology Policy in the Danish Economy by Ina Drejer, Frank Skov Kristensen and Keld Laursen -- Chapter 13. Cluster Analysis and Cluster Policy in the Netherlands by Theo J. A. Roelandt, Pim den Hertog, Jarig van Sinderen and Norbert van den Hove -- Chapter 14. Creating a Coherent Design for Cluster Analysis and Related Policies: TheAustrian TIP Experience by Michael Peneder -- Chapter 15. Finnish Cluster Studies and new Industrial Policy Making by Petri Rouvinen and Pekka Yla-Anttila -- Chapter 16. Public Policies to Facilitate Clusters: Background, Rationale and Policy Practices in International Perspective by Patriers Boekholt and Ben Thuriaux -- Chapter 17. Cluster Analysis and Cluster-Based Policy Making: The State of the Art by Theo J. A. Roelandt and Pim den Hertog
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references.
 Both firms, keen to improve their competitiveness, and governments, keen to exploit new sources of economic and social progress, need to understand how innovation works in order to better stimulate it. The paradox of innovation is that it uses co-operation to enhance competition and to link many different actors in innovative clusters. In a knowledge-based economy, these clusters of innovative firms form around sources of knowledge. They are based on a sophisticated infrastructure in which knowledge is developed, shared and exchanged, and are characterised by highly concentrated and effective links between entrepreneurs, investors and researchers. Clusters can take a variety of forms, depending on their main technological and commercial areas of specialisation. In most cases they operate within localised geographical areas and interact within larger innovation systems at the regional, national and international level. With globalisation, dynamic clusters are becoming key factors in a country's capacity to attract the international investment that generates new technological expertise, to interest investors in innovation (venture capital, etc.) and to benefit from the international mobility of skilled personnel. This book reviews the latest economic research on these issues, shows how technology policy makers in OECD countries are making practical use of the concept of clusters and suggests how government policies to foster innovation might best be refocused.
Technological innovations.
Creative ability in business.
Business networks.