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1. Networks and Regional Development: Perspectives and Unresolved Issues
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Promises of Networking for Regional Development
1.3 Business Networks in the New Economic Environment
1.4 The Institutional Framework of Business Networks
1.4.1 Network Boundaries
1.4.2 Power, Autonomy, and Dependence
1.4.3 Managing the Public-Private Interface
1.4.4 Performance Evaluation
1.5 Conclusion
2. Flexible Specialization in Regional Networks
2.1 Flexible Specialization, Regional Networks, and Strategic Networks
2.2 German Experiences: Baden-Württemberg and Beyond
2.3 InBroNet: A Regional Network in the Financial Service Industry
2.3.1 Insurance Brokers and their Role within Financial Services Networks
2.3.2 InBroNet: Insurance Brokers on their Way to Flexible Specialization
2.3.3 Managing the Formation of InBroNet: Tensions and Contradictions
2.4 Organizing Regional Networks: Some Conclusions for Business and Public Policy
3. Regional-Industrial Networks and the Role of Labour
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Regional-Industrial Networks and the “Network Paradigm”
3.3 Unions and the Network Paradigm
3.4 The Difference that Labour Relations Make
3.5 Obstacles to Industrial Network Formation in Canada’s Regions
3.6 Reflections on the Northern Ontario Case Study: Lessons for Future Action
4. Rationalizing State Economic Development
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Background
4.3 Political Entrepreneurship and the Creation of an Industrial Extension Service
4.3.1 Market Failure and Industrial Extension Services
4.3.2 The Creation of an Industrial Extension Service
4.4 The Case of New Hampshire
4.4.1 New Hampshire’s Low Cost Economic Development Strategy
4.4.2 New Hampshire Reconsiders its Economic Development Strategy
4.4.3 Forging a Governor’s Technology Partnership
4.4.4 Lessons from New Hampshire
4.5 Conclusions: The Need to Rationalize State Development Efforts
5. Québec’s Strategy to Foster Value-Adding Interfirm Cooperation
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Québec’s Economic Strategy
5.3 Strategy Phases
5.3.1 The Clustering Phase
5.3.2 The Networking Phase
5.4 Linking the Network Enterprise Approach with the Industrial Strategy
5.4.1 The Network Enterprise Model
5.4.2 The Network Enterprise Approach
5.5 Conclusion
6. The Industrial Resurgence of Southern California?
6.1 Introduction
6.2 A Brief Conceptual Overview of the Problem of Local Economic Development
6.2.1 The Organization and Location of Industry
6.2.2 The Emergence and Growth of Industrial Regions
6.2.3 Markets and Institutions in Regional Economic Development
6.2.4 Local Economic Development in Practice
6.3 The Advanced Ground Transportation Equipment Industry: Specifications of a Regional Industrial Complex for Southern California
6.3.1 Southern California’s Current Industrial Assets
6.3.2 Broad Outlines of a Prospective Advanced Ground Transportation Equipment Industry
6.3.3 The Detailed Structure of a Possible Ground Transportation Equipment Industry in Southern California
6.3.4 A System of Regional Synergies
6.4 Practical Policy Issues
6.4.1 The MTA’s Thirty-Year Plan
6.4.2 Institution-Building and Political Mobilization: Some Proposals
6.4.3 The Wider Political Context
6.5 Conclusion
7. Strategic Economic Cooperation and Employment Relations Issues
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Strategic Economic Cooperation in Asia
7.3 Commodity Chains and Regional Divisions of Labour
7.4 Growth Triangles and Employment Relations
7.5 Consequences for Theoretical Debates
7.6 Concluding Remarks
8. The Social Embeddedness of Industrial District Networks
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Balancing Cooperation and Competition for Continuous Learning
8.3 The Social Embeddedness Approach to Networking
8.4 Institutional Structures and Processes in District Relations
8.4.1 Institutional Elements and Mechanisms of Control
8.4.2 Carriers of Institutional Processes
8.5 Policy Implications
8.6 Conclusion
9. Why Do Industries Cluster?
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Competitive Advantage and Fuzzy Implementation
9.3 Towards a Business-Based Theory of Cluster Development
9.3.1 Production Channels as an Economic Development Tool
9.3.2 Beyond Industry-Level Relationships
9.3.3 Global Networks or Regional Industry Clusters?
9.4 Rivalry Versus Cooperation
9.4.1 Just-In-Time Production
9.4.2 Building Niche Markets
9.5 Factor Market Relationships
9.5.1 Technology Transfer
9.5.2 Workforce Quality
9.5.3 Skills
9.5.4 Work Attitudes
9.6 Institutional Relationships
9.6.1 Labor-Management Relations
9.6.2 Civic Capacity
9.7 Conclusion: Building Cluster Potential at the State and Local Level
10. Regional Clusters and Economic Development: A Research Agenda
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Some Definitions
10.3 The Economics of Clustering
10.4 The Boundaries of Regional Clusters
10.5 Competition and Cooperation in Regional Clusters
10.6 Governing Relations in Regional Clusters
10.7 Globalization-Localization Tensions
10.8 The Failure Modes of Geographic Clusters
10.9 Government, Regional Clusters, and the Nature of Regional Policy
10.10 Conclusion
References
List of Contributors
Index