Complexity and industrial clusters
Subtitle: dynamics and models in theory and practice
By: Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Marco Fortis (editors).
Contributors: Quadrio Curzio, Alberto.; Fortis, Marco.
Series: Contributions to economics,
Publisher: Physica-Verlag; Physica
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Industrial location -- Congresses.; Industrial location -- Mathematical models -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Proceedings of a conference held in Milan, June 19-20, 2001--Cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: From Specific Industrial Cases to a General Economic; title: Model?; title: Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Marco Fortis 1; title: I. Complexity and Economic Dynamics; title: What Is Complexity?; title: Murray Gell-Mann 13; title: Complex Adaptive Systems and Spontaneous Emergence; title: John H. Holland 25; title: The Industrial Cluster as a Complex Adaptive System; title: Enzo Rullani 35; title: II. General Models of Industrial Cluster Dynamics; title: Complexity and Local Interactions: Towards a Theory of Industrial; title: Districts; title: David A. Lane 65; title: From Marshall's to the Italian "Industrial Districts". A Brief Critical; title: Reconstruction; title: Giacom O Becattini 83; title: Diversity, Not Specialization: The Ties That Bind the (New) Industrial; title: District; title: Charles F. Sabel 107; title: Competitive and Synergic Behaviours in the Development of Industrial; title: Clusters: Ecological Modelling and Empirical Evidence; title: Marco Fortis and Mario A. Maggioni 123; title: On the Ubiquitous Nature of Agglomeration Economies and Their; title: Diverse Determinants: Some Notes; title: Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi and Giorgio Fagiolo 167; title: III. Success Cases Around the World; title: The Entrepreneurial Spark: Individual Agents and the Formation of; title: Innovative Clusters; title: Maryann P. Feldman and Johanna Francis 195; title: From Exogenous to Endogenous Local Development: The Cases of; title: the Toulouse and Sophia Antipolis Technopoles; title: Christian Longhi 213; title: Biotechnology Development in Germany: The Case of Nordrhein-Westfalen; title: Francesco Salamini, Anke Sohn and Hartmut Thomas 239; title: Support for Technology-Based Firms: The Role Played by Property-Based; title: Science Parks; title: Don Siegel, Paul Westhead and Mike Wright 249; title: High-Tech Industrial Clusters in the Asian Countries: The Case of the; title: Electronics Industry in the Hsinchu-Taipei Region; title: Kung Wang 267; title: Financial Markets, Industrial Clusters and Small and Medium-Size; title: Enterprises; title: Angelo Tantazzi 291.