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Growing industrial clusters in Asia: serendipity and science

By Shahid Yusuf , Kaoru Nabeshima , Shoichi Yamashita (editors)

Book information

Publisher
World Bank Publications
Year
2008
ISBN
0821372130, 9780821372135, 0821372149, 9780821372142
DOI
10.1596/978-0-8213-7213-5
LCC
HC415.D5 G76 2008
Google Books ID
k6AVM1-HO7cC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1547247 bytes)
Series
Directions in development
Pages
306\306
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-31 00:48:14

Description

Industrial clusters in Silicon Valley, Hsinchu Park, and northern Italy, and in the vicinity of Cambridge, U.K., have captured the imagination of policymakers, researchers, city planners and business people. Where clusters take root, they can generate valuable spillovers, promote innovation, and create the critical industrial mass for sustained growth. For cities such as Kitakyushu, Japan, that are faced with the erosion of their traditional industrial base and are threatened by economic decline, creating a cluster that would reverse the downward trends is enormously attractive. Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia offers practical guidance on the nature of clusters and the likely efficacy of measures that could help build a cluster. It draws on the experience of both established dynamic clusters and newly emerging ones that show considerable promise. The insights that result from its anlaysis will be of particular interest to policy makers, urban planners, business people, and researchers.

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