Resilience and Potential in Maritime Clusters

Philip Cooke ()
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Philip Cooke: University of Wales, Postal: Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales

No 2011-9, Spatial and Organizational Dynamics Discussion Papers from CIEO-Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, University of Algarve

Abstract: Theoretical analysis of the relevance of the concept of path dependence for regional analysis has made progress. This has occurred on the spatial process (or regional paradigm)dimension of spatial evolution Progress has also occurred after further reflections on the roles of ‘conventions’ in understanding the ‘soft institutional’ dimension of regional regime formation and change. This adds considerably to the more common ‘institutions and organisations’ aspects of governance structures for innovation regarding the typical analytical content of regional regime and innovation system analysis. In this paper the concepts of ‘relatedness’ and ‘transversality’ capture the processes of knowledge recombination for innovation classically introduced by Schumpeter. Two live cases are presented whereby regional relatedness of industry regarding ‘green’ competences, on the one hand, and engineering and materials processing, on the other, have resulted in new clusters or cluster trajectories. The exemplar cases come from either end of Europe, Sweden, in the first instance, Italy in the second. Both clearly support the new ‘transversal’ theory of cluster emergence

Keywords: Region; Maritime Clusters; Relatedness; Transversality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 O33 R11 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2011-11-30
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-geo, nep-sbm, nep-tur and nep-ure
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