The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies: Towards a Knowledge-Based Theory of Spatial Clustering

By A. Malmberg, P. Maskell. 2002

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Knowledge and Information Networks in an Italian Wine Cluster (2009, background): “…have recently challenged this traditional approach (Boschma & Frenken, 2006; Breschi & Lissoni, 2001a, 2001b; Capello & Faggian, 2005; Lissoni, 2001; Malmberg & Maskell, 2002) by arguing that it overlooks the very different types of knowledge flows in local agglomerations, and in turn it fails to…”
Regional innovation systems: Current discourse and unresolved issues (2005, background): “the importance of regional scale and of specific and regional resources in stimulating the innovation capability and competitiveness of firms and regions [2–6].”
Local Embeddedness and Rural Entrepreneurship: Case-Study Evidence from Cumbria, England (2006, background): “…geographical, industrial, organisational, and institutional proximities are perceived to be instrumental in facilitating the emergence of shared patterns of behaviour and cognitive rules, which in turn underpin collective learning processes (Kirat and Lung, 1999; Malmberg and Maskell, 2002).”
The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography (2010, background): “As Iammarino and McCann also point out in their contribution, an evolutionary approach provides a powerful framework to explain the tendency of economic activities to agglomerate and of industries to cluster spatially (see Malmberg and Maskell, 1997; Malmberg and Maskell, 2002).”
University–industry relationships and open innovation: Towards a research agenda (2007, positive): “The relevance of interorganisational and social networks for innovation-related processes is rooted in the nature of knowledge creation as a socially embedded process (Brown and Duguid 1991; Malmberg and Maskell 2002).”
MNEs as border-crossing multi-location enterprises: The role of discontinuities in geographic space (2013, background): “…literature now exists documenting that in addition to spatial costs (that can be minimized by proximity or co-location) there are significant social interaction costs that must be borne in order to actualize economic and business relationships (Cantwell & Mudambi, 2011; Malmberg & Maskell, 2002).”
The Relational Organization of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (2017, background): “Cluster theory has long separated localization economies—the savings due to colocation of firms in the same vertical industry, such as shared infrastructure or lowered transportation costs—and agglomeration economies, the advantages found by being in an environment filled with other firms in the sam”
What is global and what is local in knowledge-generating interaction? The case of the biotech cluster in Uppsala, Sweden (2007, background): “…by Porter (1990a, b) and subsequently developed by himself, his associates and others (Porter 1994, 1998a, 2000, Malmberg et al. 1996, Enright 1998, Malmberg and Maskell 2002), has caught the imagination of social scientists and brought some genuine contributions to the analysis of key issues of…”
Trading routes, bypasses, and risky intersections: mapping the travels of `networks' between economic sociology and economic geography (2006, background): “Among the pioneers who explored this particular path in economic geography, Malmberg and Maskell (2002) pointed to the relevance of observation, imitation and mimetic processes more generally.”
Epistemic Communities and Cluster Dynamics: On the Role of Knowledge in Industrial Districts (2004, background): “) Conclusions as to the beneficial effects of the localization of related industries therefore seem decidedly premature (Feldman, 2000a; Malmberg and Maskell, 2002).”
What Qualifies as a Cluster Theory (2005, background): “…with direct roots in Marshall’s initial contribution is the Knowledge-Based Theory of the cluster (see Maskell and Malmberg 1997, Maskell 2001, Malmberg and Maskell 2002, Bathelt et al. 2004) that emphasises the role of knowledge formation when addressing the 'why' and its three components:…”
Introduction: Clusters in Urban and Regional Development (2004, background): “…is that the increasing importance of knowledge-creating processes for competitive advantage in a global economy (see Lundvall and Johnson, 1994; Hodgson, 1998) is reinforcing the tendency towards urban and regional clustering (Cooke and Morgan, 1998; Malmberg and Maskell, 2002; Storper, 1997).”
Knowledge Networks and Innovative Performance in an Industrial District: The Case of a Footwear District in the South of Italy (2007, background): “In addition, this body of literature stresses that all firms in the district can benefit from these knowledge spillovers, because they belong to the same cultural environment (Malmberg and Maskell, 2002).”
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Industrial Development: Geography and the Creative Field Revisited (2006, background): “…claims in the literature that veer to the one side or the other of this question -- particularly perhaps to the former (e.g. Brown and Duguid 2000b; Malmberg and Maskell 2002; Pinch and Henry 1999; Storper 1995) -- but not to any decisive general resolution, partly because the question itself is…”