Cluster Policies in Europe Firms, Institutions and Governance
Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 1
Susana Borrás and Dimitrios Tsagdis,Edward Elgar Publishing,Cheltenham,2008,304 pp.,£69.95(Hardback),ISBN 1 84542 758 0
Keywords: Cluster policies, Governance, Management, Systems
This is a book written by an author who is a Professor of Innovation and Governance at the International Centre for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and the CIRCLE Centre for Innovation,Research and Competence in the Learning Economy at Lund University, Sweden together with a lecturer from Hull University’s Business School, UK.
The book aims to provide a systematic, comprehensive and independent comparative study of cluster policies in Europe. The authors believe that we should consider one very important relationship that has been neglected. That is the extent to which the complex dynamics of multi-level governance are responding to the problems and challenges faced by clusters, in particular the extent to which multi-level governance learns and supports cluster learning. They do this with a structure for the book that includes a contents list of:
Foreword by Phil Cooke 1. Cluster Policies in Europe: Governance and Learning 2. Methodology 3. Cluster Policy in Germany 4. Cluster Policy in the UK 5. Cluster Policy in Italy 6. Cluster Policy in Slovenia 7. Cluster Policy in the Czech Republic 8. Cluster Policy in Romania 9. Comparative Findings and Conclusions References Index.
C.J.H. MannBook Reviews and Reports Section Editor, Norbert Wiener Institute and Bangor University, Bangor, UK
