The Globalization of Regional Clusters

Edited by Dirk Fornahl and Nils Grashof, Centre for Regional and Innovation Economics, University of Bremen, Germany

Contents:

Introduction: regional clusters and internationalization –
complementary or contrasting fields of research? xv
Nils Grashof, Dirk Fornahl and Julius Becker

PART I RETHINKING CLUSTERS:
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF CLUSTER
INTERNATIONALIZATION
1 Strategic cluster coupling 2
Robert Hassink
2 From the machine learning region to the deep
learning region: Tesla, DarkTrace and DeepMind as
internationalized local to global cluster firms 20
Philip Cooke
3 Embedding cluster transformation in global sectoral
resilience dynamics: conceptual considerations and the
example of automotive production 44
Martina Fromhold-Eisebith

PART II THE PROCESSES OF CLUSTER
INTERNATIONALIZATION AND THEIR
IMPLICATIONS
4 Migrants and cluster internationalization: case studies of
Antwerp and Tel Aviv 71
Sebastian Henn and Susann Schäfer
5 Regional clusters in transition economies: solving
institutional voids to generate internationalization advantages 93
Tine Lehmann and Nobina Roy

PART III CLUSTER INTERNATIONALIZATION AND
FIRM PERFORMANCE
6 Macroeconomic impacts on firm performance and
place-based cluster policies in the Netherlands 116
Jeroen van Haaren, Frank van Oort and Jan-Daan Maasland
7 Knowledge bases, innovation and multi-scalar
relationships: which kind of territorial boundedness of
industrial clusters? 151
Franz Tödtling and Alexander Auer
8 Radical innovations in clusters: the role of cluster internal
and external relationships 177
Nils Grashof and Thomas Brenner

Index