ASIAN INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS, GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS AND NEW POLICY INITIATIVES

ASIAN INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS, GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS AND NEW POLICY INITIATIVES

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
Part One Overview
From Industrial Districts to Poles of Competitiveness Bernard Ganne and Yveline Lecler	3
From an Industrial Policy Approach to an Industrial Cluster Approach: Japan, East Asia and Silicon Valley Akira Suehiro	25
Part Two Japan: The Japanese Clustering Initiatives Approach
Public Policies in Japan: Industrial Revitalisation, Knowledge Creation and Clustering Akira Hattori	71
Development of Industrial Parks by the Japan Regional Development Corporation in the 1990s: Is this a Failure of Regional Development Policy or Industrial Cluster Policy? Yoichi Sekizawa	107
From Jibasangyō to Industrial Clusters in Japan: SMEs and Revitalisation Policies Yveline Lecler and Yamaguchi Takayuki	121
Competence and Profitability of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Case of Kawasaki SMEs Mitsuharu Miyamoto	163
Part Three China: The Specificities of Chinese Industrial Clusters: Their Importance and Weaknesses
New Phenomena and Challenges of Clusters in China in the New Era of Globalisation Jici Wang	195
The Emergence of Industrial Clusters in Wenzhou, China Tomoo Marukawa	213
Understanding the Zhejiang Industrial Clusters: Questions and Re-evaluations Lu Shi and Bernard Ganne	239
Distribution System of China's Industrial Clusters: Case Study of Yiwu China Commodity City Ke Ding	267
Post Local State Corporatism: A Case Study of Local Government's Role in the Development of Industrial Clusters after Privatisation Jianniu Xu	307
Interaction and Innovation in Cluster Development: Some Experiences from Guangdong Province, China Jun Wang	325
Part Four South East Asia: Clusters and the Building of Competitiveness in Emerging Countries: Some Evidence from South East Asia
From Craft Villages to Clusters in Vietnam: Transition Through Globalisation Quy Nghi Nguyen	365
The Prevalence of Social Embedding in Vietnamese Industrial Clusters Stephen J. Appold and Quy Thanh Nguyen	405
From ‘Tradi-cluster’ to ‘Neo-cluster’: First Step for a Typology of Industrial Clusters in Emerging Economies: A Case Study of Thailand Audrey Baron-Gutty, Catherine Figuière and Jean-Christophe Simon	437
Thailand's Cluster Initiatives: Successes, Failures and Impacts on National Innovation System Patarapong Intarakumnerd	467
‘Penang's Illustrious Story’ Revisited: Local Authorities, Labour Force and the Multinationals Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux	507
BACK MATTER	553
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