Deconstructing clusters: chaotic concept or policy panacea?

By Ron Martin, P. Sunley. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy (2013, background): “…nature of economic agglomeration has come to the fore in research in both international business (e.g., Porter, 1998) and economic geography (e.g., Martin & Sunley, 2003; Scott, 1992), where researchers have examined various types of agglomerations, including industrial districts or clusters,…”
Recent research on competitiveness and clusters: what are the implications for regional policy? (2013, background): “Keywords: competitiveness, clusters, regions, regional policy JEL Classifications: R11, R38, R58 Introduction Competitiveness and clusters have been controversial terms since they entered the public debate in a significant way in the 1990s (Porter, 1990; Krugman, 1994; Martin and Sunley, 2003).”
Clusters from the Inside and Out: Local Dynamics and Global Linkages (2004, background): “A key challenge for those interested in applying the concept of clusters from either perspective is to respond to the concerns raised by Martin and Sunley (2003) that academic analysts are being seduced by the lure of the ‘cluster brand’ at the expense of serious analysis of whether the presence or…”
Human Capital, Graduate Migration and Innovation in British Regions (2008, background): “Although there have been powerful analytical critiques of the local clusters arguments (Martin and Sunley 2003) and their relationships to innovation (Iammarino and McCann 2006), a broader analytical framework has yet to emerge in the lite rature on the geography of innovation.”
Evolutionary agglomeration theory: increasing returns, diminishing returns, and the industry life cycle (2011, background): “…on M ay 31, 2013 http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/ D ow nloaded from Conversely, we still do not know what impact local knowledge spillovers have towards the end of the Agglomeration Life Cycle (ALC) Model, especially within the context of a declining agglomeration (Martin and Sunley, 2003).”
In search of clusters (2007, background): “Marshal observed the co-location of industries into industrial zones in England (Martin and Sunley, 2001).”
Location Matters: Where We Have Been and Where We Might Go in Agglomeration Research (2008, background): “Finally, we note that Martin and Sunley (2003) provided an interesting contrary viewpoint explicating a number of reasons why they think cluster-based government policy may be a misguided approach.”
Epistemic Communities and Cluster Dynamics: On the Role of Knowledge in Industrial Districts (2004, background): “The conceptual and theoretical problems characteristic of much recent literature on clusters have been aggravated by empirical and methodological ones (Staber, 1996; Malmberg and Maskell, 2002; Martin and Sunley, 2003).”
Geographical and cognitive proximity effects on innovation performance in SMEs: a way through knowledge acquisition (2011, background): “In any specific place, local firms look for global advantages and global firms look for local advantages (Martin and Sunley 2003).”
Bigger and safer: the diffusion of competitive advantage (2009, background): “against cluster theory is that it is difficult to define meaningful spatial and industrial cluster boundaries ( Martin and Sunley, 2003 ).”
Industrial innovation: Direct evidence from a cluster-oriented policy (2010, background): “The cluster concept has been, for the most part, enthusiastically embraced by policymakers, but is viewed with more distrust by economists and geographers, who are not wholly convinced that it is a complete panacea for regional woes (see Duranton, 2010; Martin and Sunley, 2003).”
Rebalancing the Spatial Economy: The Challenge for Regional Theory (2015, background): “…alleged advantages of clusters (that they promote greater innovation, productivity and growth) have not gone uncontested (e.g. ASHEIM et al., 2006; MARTIN and SUNLEY, 2003, 2011c; DURANTON, 2011), and we still know relatively little about how clusters actually emerge or how they evolve and adapt…”
Towards a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems (2018, result): “Similar issues occurred with early cluster and RIS research (Martin and Sunley, 2003).”
Exporting the German Model: The Establishment of a New Automobile Industry Cluster in Shanghai (2005, background): “Such a conceptualization may help to overcome some of the shortcomings and simplifications that Martin and Sunley (2003) identified in much of the literature on clusters.”
Why do some places succeed when others decline? A social interaction model of cluster viability (2008, background): “Keywords: clusters, location under decision externalities, cognitive distance, knowledge spillovers JEL classifications: D83, L86, R12 Date submitted: 16 January 2008 Date accepted: 21 November 2008”
The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography (2010, background): “This would meet worries expressed in the literature that clusters are often treated as static, instead of dynamic entities (Maggioni, 2002; Carlsson, 2003; Martin and Sunley, 2003).”
The role of clustering in the growth of new technology-based firms (2010, background): “There is considerable variety, and some ambiguity, concerning the meaning of a cluster (Martin and Sunley 2003; Tallman et al. 2004).”
Location, Control and Innovation in Knowledge-Intensive Industries (2008, background): “(country music), New York and London (media) have occupied dominant global positions (Malone, 1993; Martin and Sunley, 2003; Scott, 2004, 2005).”