Networks, Milieux and Individual Firm Strategies: Empirical Evidence of an Innovative SME Environment

Grotz, Reinhold; Braun, Boris

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“…Scott 1988, Saxenian 1994, Maillat et al 1997, Ratti, Bramanti and Gordon 1997 relatively few empirical studies have actually provided convincing empirical evidence of the superiority of local over nonlocal interaction, aside from some well-known case studies on industrial districts and creative milieus (see, also, Markusen 1996). Empirical work on regional linkage patterns has provided evidence that even in regions, such as the San Francisco Bay area and Baden-Württemberg which are often portrayed as prototypes of regional networking, internal transactions are by no means dominant over external relations (Oakey, Rothwell and Cooper 1988;Grotz and Braun 1993). Not surprisingly, an increasing number of studies have begun to question the seemingly dominant character of local learning processes (Malecki and Oinas 1999, Bathelt 2001, Gertler 2001a, Vatne 2001).…”

Section: Knowledge Creation Across Clusters: the Nature Of Pipelinesmentioning

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Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation

Bathelt

Malmberg

Maskell

2004

Progress in Human Geography

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Section: Knowledge Creation Across Clusters: the Nature Of Pipelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation

Bathelt

Malmberg

Maskell

2004

Progress in Human Geography

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“…The study showed that as markets tightened over a twelveyear period, firm survival in this engineering cluster necessitated disengaging from local transactions and building greater external buyer-supplier links. Tendencies towards the establishment of stronger cluster-external relations and disengagement from traditional local ties may also be observed in some of the industrial districts in the Third Italy (Bianchi, 1998;Whitford, 2001), as well as in Baden-Württemberg's machinery industry core (Grotz and Braun, 1993).…”

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Clusters, power and place: inequality and local growth in time–space

Bathelt

Taylor

2002

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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The argument of this paper is that a deeper appreciation of the nature of the power relationships between firms and the circuits of power that bind them together is key to understanding how clusters function -including how they might emerge and how they might decline. We begin to develop a conceptualization that allows us to generate a deeper understanding of the processes that enable the production and reproduction of enterprise clusters under some combinations of circumstances but not others. The sections of the paper explore: (1) concepts of power and circuits of power including their spatialities; (2) the temporarily stabilized relationships which occur in clusters of economic activity; (3) the openness and permeability of clusters as a way of understanding conditions that foster cluster growth; (4) a tentative integration of concepts. From this reading of the concepts of clustering and power we draw the conclusion that clusters are, at any particular point in time, temporary and transient conjunctures of interfirm relationships. They depend on specific circumstances in 'time-space' and, because of their very transience and specificity, those conditions might be very difficult if not impossible to create through the blunt instruments of policy.

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“…Thus, the knowledge of how local and regional labour markets function, how speci c technologies operate and how markets relate to local products are all integral features of the system. Together, these physical and intellectual assets give the territorial production system its speci c regional characteristics (Crevoisier & Maillat 1991, Conti 1993, Grotz & Braun 1993.…”

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Governance and territoriality in Norwegian fisheries

Lindkvist¹

2001

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

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This paper focuses on the informal and institutional governance structures that are embedded within local production systems in Norwegian sheries. Important issues concern the regional distribution of sh landings resulting from the tendency in some regional production systems to use large shing vessels, and the negative consequences of this for peripheral regions and inshore sheries. The in uence of powerful central production systems is considered in terms of territorial dominance over shing grounds.

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Networks, Milieux and Individual Firm Strategies: Empirical Evidence of an Innovative SME Environment

Cited by 20 publications

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Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation

Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation

Clusters, power and place: inequality and local growth in time–space

Governance and territoriality in Norwegian fisheries

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