California Dreamin’: The Feeble Case for Cluster Policies
By Gilles Duranton. Review of Economic Analysis, 2011
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This study examines the case for cluster policy. This case is theoretically ambiguous and empirically very weak.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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Citations in the corpus
- The logic of economic development: a definition and model for investment (2016, background): “In many cases, the design and cultivation of competitive industry clusters, often seen as a policy panacea, have failed to produce meaningful economic development (Duranton, 2011; Martin and Sunley, 2003).”
- Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change (2016, background): “3 Duranton (2011) provides a critical assessment of the “cluster” concept, which is often associated with Porter (1990).”
- Rebalancing the Spatial Economy: The Challenge for Regional Theory (2015, background): “However, the 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 ”
- Recent research on competitiveness and clusters: what are the implications for regional policy? (2013, background): “Turning to cluster policy, most of the conceptual critique is based on the assumption that cluster polices tries to create clusters (Duranton, 2011; Brakman and van Marrewijk, 2012).”
- Agglomeration, clusters, and industrial policy (2013, background): “The first, well-documented problem is one of definition (Gordon and McCann, 2000; Martin and Sunley, 2003; Duranton, 2011).”
- 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).”