Industrial Agglomeration and New Technologies

Edited by Masatsugo Tsuji, Emanuele Giovannetti and Mitsuhiro Kagami

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Abstract: This book, a collaborative effort by researchers from Japan, Italy and the USA, seeks to explore the reasons for industrial clustering in certain regions of Asia, Europe and North America. The studies presented illustrate real examples of industrial clusters, adding anecdotal evidence to the emerging theory of economic geography by exemplifying the centripetal and centrifugal forces that regulate the clustering process. The authors examine clusters in a diverse set of countries including China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, the USA and Vietnam. Significantly, the book provides an interesting split between studies of IT and software-related industries, and more traditional sectors, such as steel and vehicle manufacturing.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781845423964
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Masatsugu Tsuji, Emanuele Giovannetti and Mitsuhiro Kagami

Ch 2 The Relationship Between Toyota and its Parts Suppliers in the Age of Information and Globalization: Concentration versus Dispersion

Masatsugu Tsuji

Ch 3 Iron Town Cluster: Yawata, its Glory, Decline and Rebirth

Mitsuhiro Kagami

Ch 4 Information Technology and Economic Growth: Discovering the Informational Role of Density

Takuo Imagawa

Ch 5 Agglomeration of Exporting Firms in Industrial Zones in Northern Vietnam: Players and Institutions

Akifumi Kuchiki

Ch 6 Industrial Agglomeration and Regional Growth in Korea: Focusing on the Software and IT Service Sector

Yasushi Ueki

Ch 7 China’s Regional Industrial Disparity from the Viewpoint of Industrial Agglomeration

Koichiro Kimura

Ch 8 Italian Comparative Advantages, Persistence and Change in Overall Specialization

Luca De Benedictis

Ch 9 Globalization, Industrial Districts and Value Chains

Roberta Rabellotti

Ch 10 The Competitive Advantage of a Region: Industrial Districts In Emilia-Romagna

Enrico Santarelli

Ch 11 Where is the Internet? Agglomeration in Space and Cyberspace

Emanuele Giovannetti, Karsten Neuhoff and Giancarlo Spagnolo

Ch 12 The Software Industry in North America: Human Capital, International Migration and Foreign Trade

Andrew Schrank

Ch 13 Mexico: The Management Revolution and the Emergence of the Software Industry

Clemente Ruiz Durán

Ch 14 Conclusions

Masatsugu Tsuji, Mitsuhiro Kagami and Emanuele Giovannetti

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