Temporary Clusters and Knowledge Creation: The Effects of International Trade Fairs, Conventions and Other Professional Gatherings

By P. Maskell, H. Bathelt, A. Malmberg. 2004

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2. Franz Tödtling
3. H. Bathelt
4. I. R. Cook
5. Ron A. Boschma
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7. K. Ward
8. N. Schuldt

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• Geographies of production: growth regimes in spatial perspective (II) - knowledge creation and growth in clusters (2005, background): “Coe and Bunnell, 2003; Rallet and Torre, 2004); (iv) international trade fairs and other professional gatherings in which leading firms of an industry exchange information about advanced products and innovations (Maskell et al., 2004).”
• Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: the process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’ (2012, methodology): “Attending to this lacuna, we draw upon and develop work in relational economic geography (Maskell et al., 2004; Storper and Venables, 2004; Torre, 2008; Bathelt and Schuldt, 2008a, 2008b) to assemble a framework for understanding the role of conferences in the embodied, programmatic and technical…”
• International Trade Fairs and Global Buzz, Part I: Ecology of Global Buzz (2010, methodology): “International trade fairs are characterized by specific communication and information patterns that develop between the exhibitors, visitors, experts and observers who get together in these temporary clusters (Maskell et al., 2004).”
• The Role of Trade Fairs in the Global Fashion Business (2006, background): “Another critique of the neoclassical paradigm comes from economic geographers Peter Maskell et al. (2004) who propose to see trade fairs as temporary clusters that share many of the same functions as permanent clusters in terms of information exchange, learning processes and networks.”
• Cyclical Clusters in Global Circuits: Overlapping Spaces in Furniture Trade Fairs (2008, background): “Examining the spaces and activities around and during a trade fair and how actors negotiate them can tell much about the industry in question (Rosson and Seringhaus 1995; Bonnell 2001; Seringhaus and Rosson 2001; Maskell, Bathelt, and Malmberg 2004; Bathelt and Schuldt 2005, 2007).”
• Developing Biotechnology Clusters in Non‐high Technology Regions—The Case of Austria (2007, background): “In the recent past, however, this view has been challenged by several contributions accentuating the relevance of non-local knowledge relations (Amin and Cohendet, 2004; Maskell et al., 2004) complementing local ones (Bathelt et al.”