Industrial Clusters and Cluster Development

This page currently lists resources for the study of industrial clusters

Industry Clusters
An Internet Resource for Economic Developers (North Carolina, 1998)

Business Clusters in the UK - A First Assessment, published in February 2001, is the first UK-wide systematic assessment of UK clusters. It has been prepared by Trends Business Research for the DTI.

Cluster development page from the North West Development Agency (UK)
Textiles cluster page, NWDA

The Cluster Initiative Greenbook
Örjan Sölvell, Göran Lindqvist, Christian Ketels (September 2003)

The Competitiveness Institute
Cluster practitioners network based in Barcelona

Promoting Cluster Approaches for EU Association and Accession Countries
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH

Defining Clusters: A Popular Pastime
J. Adam Holbrook, eSynapse, August 2003.


Some Journal Articles and Papers

The Development of the cluster concept - present experiences and further developments
Christian H. M. Ketels
NRW conference on clusters, Duisburg, Germany, 5 Dec 2003

European Clusters by Christian Ketels
Structural Change in Europe 3 - Innovative City and Business Regions,
Hagbarth Publications, January 2004
Discusses new evidence on clusters in Europe and European economic policy thinking.

Industry Clusters and Irish Indigenous Manufacturing: Limits of the Porter View
EOIN O'MALLEY and CHRIS VAN EGERAAT
The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, January, 2000, pp. 55-79.

Learning in districts: novelty and lock-in in a regional context
EVERT-JAN VISSER and RON A. BOSCHMA
European Planning Studies, Vol. 12, No. 6, September 2004

The Added Value of the Industry Cluster Approach to Economic Analysis, Strategy
Development, and Service Delivery

Mary Jo Waits
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY, Vol. 14 No. 1, February 2000, 35-50.



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