Agglomeration, Industrial Districts and Industry Clusters: Foundations of the 20th Century Literature

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Mechanisms

“…This includes leverage gained from structures outside the local ecosystem, such as supply chains, platforms or clusters (Auerswald & Dani, 2017). The implication of this idea of the entrepreneur-led ecosystem is that the causal mechanisms driving the evolution of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems may not be the same as for other territorial innovation models (Gilbert, 2016;.…”

Agglomeration, Industrial Districts and Industry Clusters: Trends of the 21st Century Literature

“…Since Marshall's (1920) seminal work, the literature on agglomerations, industrial districts and industry clustering grew from meager numbers in the 1920s-1950s into a significant body of work in the 1980s and 1990s. This research, which was reviewed in an earlier issue of this volume (see Gilbert, 2016), has informed our understanding of why these regions form (e.g. Wrigley Jr., 1947;Isard and Liossatos, 1972;Pascal and McCall, 1980;Markusen and Park, 1993), the benefits and consequences they offer (e.g.…”

“…By reading each article, I determined the overall theme the scholars addressed in the research, and compared it to the topics discussed in the Some topics were given more attention than others during this 15 year time period, however, each topic presented in this monograph has ties to either the foundations of the literature or to other trends evident in the scholarship of this time period as outlined in Gilbert (2016). Therefore, Section 2 of this monograph continues this conversation with respect to the potential of and for industry concentration.…”

“…This research is presented in Section 5 of this monograph. Whereas much of the industry focus of empirical studies published in the 20th century focused on manufacturing firms or those in the fashion industry (Gilbert, 2016), in the 21st century there was a noted shift in industry focus, with considerable discussion on creative and knowledge based industries. Therefore, Section 6, focuses on these conversations around creative and high technology industries and industry concentration.…”