Edward Elgar Publishing Industrial Clusters and Inter-Firm Networks - Regional Science

This comprehensive book provides a state-of-the-art overview of spatial industrial clusters and inter-firm networks, addressing the critical need to understand how clusters emerge, grow, stagnate and eventually disappear. Given widespread political conviction that clusters drive economic development and growth, readers gain essential insights into both theoretical and empirical dimensions of cluster dynamics. The work explores when and how policy measures effectively support cluster development to increase economic welfare, offering practitioners and researchers a rigorous foundation for understanding spatial agglomeration, network effects, and strategic interventions that strengthen regional economies through interconnected firms and knowledge sharing.