Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition

By Rüdiger Soltwedel and Dirk Dohse

The world's leading experts contribute to our understanding of regional innovation, cluster formation and the factors that influence regional productivity and innovative performance. The text improves our understanding of the reasons why, how and where innovation clusters emerge, as well as the factors that determine their respective success or failure. In doing so, it provides a timely and comprehensive picture on innovation, location, networks and clusters as important means in an environment of intensifying interregional competition. The book is written for professional researchers as well as for students and practitioners in politics, business and consultancy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642056776
• ISBN13: 9783642056772
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"