Does Local Co-operation Matter? Evidence from Industrial Clusters in South Asia and Latin America

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Deconstructing clusters: chaotic concept or policy panacea? (2003, background): “Nor has this policy interest been confined to the advanced economies: cluster policies are also being adopted enthusiastically in an expanding array of developing countries (see Doeringer and Terka, 1996; Schmitz, 2000; World Bank, 2000).”
Process of Cluster Formation in China: A Case Study of a Garment Town (2002, background): “These urban traders bring information about urban demand to the locality, but as in the case of global buyers, they do not seem to contribute to the upgrading of the design and marketing capacity in the cluster [Schmitz and Knorringa, 2000; Humphrey and Schmitz, 2000].”
Geographical proximity and innovation: Evidences from the Campos Basin oil & gas industrial agglomeration—Brazil (2009, background): “For Schmitz (2000), competitive pressure inside agglomerations is one of the most important reasons for the decline in horizontal cooperation.”
Industrial Clusters, Knowledge Integration and Performance (2004, background): “These kinds of institutions have been referred to as comprising an ‘‘associational economy’’ (Schmitz, 2000) or constituting a ‘‘meso-level’’ (Meyer-Stamer, 1999) between the macro-level of economic policy and the micro-level of a firm’s competition.”