Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia: Serendipity and Science (Directions in Development) by Shahid Yusuf

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Industrial clusters in Silicon Valley, Hsinchu Park, and northern Italy, and in the vicinity of Cambridge, U.K., have captured the imagination of policymakers, researchers, city planners and business people. Where clusters take root, they can generate valuable spillovers, promote innovation, and create the critical industrial mass for sustained growth. For cities such as Kitakyushu, Japan, that are faced with the erosion of their traditional industrial base and are threatened by economic show more decline, creating a cluster that would reverse the downward trends is enormously attractive. Growing Indust show less