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Book SynopsisAddressing the role of regional clusters in the context of ongoing globalization, this timely book investigates the two seemingly competing trends of globalization and localization from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. International case studies offer pioneering insights into the internationalization process of regional clusters and the effect of this on regional as well as firm performance.
Chapters discuss the link between localization in a regional cluster in a transition economy and firms’ internationalization, the internal/external relationships of clusters and radical innovations, and internationally organized resilience capacities of industries and regional clusters. The book highlights the role of clusters in wider networks including global value chains and the specific role of migrants in the internationalization patterns of regional clusters.
Innovative and forward-looking, this book will be a helpful read for scholars and students of economic geography and innovation. The critical case studies examined will also help public policy and regional policy-makers.
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: regional clusters and internationalization – complementary or contrasting fields of research? xv Nils Grashof, Dirk Fornahl and Julius Becker PART I RETHINKING CLUSTERS: CONCEPTUALIZATION OF CLUSTER INTERNATIONALIZATION 1 Strategic cluster coupling 2 Robert Hassink 2 From the machine learning region to the deep learning region: Tesla, DarkTrace and DeepMind as internationalized local to global cluster firms 20 Philip Cooke 3 Embedding cluster transformation in global sectoral resilience dynamics: conceptual considerations and the example of automotive production 44 Martina Fromhold-Eisebith PART II THE PROCESSES OF CLUSTER INTERNATIONALIZATION AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS 4 Migrants and cluster internationalization: case studies of Antwerp and Tel Aviv 71 Sebastian Henn and Susann Schäfer 5 Regional clusters in transition economies: solving institutional voids to generate internationalization advantages 93 Tine Lehmann and Nobina Roy PART III CLUSTER INTERNATIONALIZATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE 6 Macroeconomic impacts on firm performance and place-based cluster policies in the Netherlands 116 Jeroen van Haaren, Frank van Oort and Jan-Daan Maasland 7 Knowledge bases, innovation and multi-scalar relationships: which kind of territorial boundedness of industrial clusters? 151 Franz Tödtling and Alexander Auer 8 Radical innovations in clusters: the role of cluster internal and external relationships 177 Nils Grashof and Thomas Brenner Index
