From agglomeration to innovation
Subtitle: upgrading industrial clusters in emerging economies
By: edited by Akifumi Kuchiki and Masatsugu Tsuji
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780230233102
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The automobile industry cluster in Malaysia / Akifumi Kuchiki; title: Industrial cluster development and innovation in Singapore / Poh-Kam Wong, Yuen-Ping Ho and Annette Singh; title: Empirical analysis of the relationship between upgrading and innovation of Japanese SMEs and industrial clustering / Shoichi Miyahara and Masatsugu Tsuji; title: Collective goods for reformatting the Rio de Janeiro software cluster into a local innovation system / Antonio José Junqueira Botelho, Alex da Silva Alves and Glaudson Mosqueira Bastos; title: Innovation through long-distance conversations? : experience from offshoring-based software clusters in Bangalore, India / Aya Okada; title: A comparative analysis of organizational innovation in Japanese SMEs generated by information communication technology / Masatsugu Tsuji and Shoichi Miyahara; title: The role of the specialized markets in upgrading industrial clusters in China / Ke Ding; title: Industrial clusters and workplace training to expand innovation capability : evidence from manufacturing in the Greater Bangkok, Thailand / Tomohiro Machikita / Innovation as a driver for building an oil & gas industrial cluster in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Antonio José Junqueira Botelho and Glaudson Mosqueira Bastos.