From Agglomeration to Innovation

Upgrading Industrial Clusters in Emerging Economies

  • Akifumi Kuchiki
  • Masatsugu Tsuji
Book

Part of the IDE-JETRO Series book series (IDE)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Masatsugu Tsuji, Akifumi Kuchiki
      Pages 1-11

  3. Learning Linkage as Drivers for Creating Cluster and Innovation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. The Automobile Industry Cluster in Malaysia
      Akifumi Kuchiki
      Pages 15-49
    3. Industrial Cluster Development and Innovation in Singapore
      Poh-Kam Wong, Yuen-Ping Ho, Annette Singh
      Pages 50-116
    4. Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Upgrading and Innovation of Japanese SMEs and Industrial Clustering
      Shoichi Miyahara, Masatsugu Tsuji
      Pages 117-165
    5. Collective Goods for Reformatting the Rio de Janeiro Software Cluster into a Local Innovation System
      Antonio José Junqueira Botelho, Alex da Silva Alves, Glaudson Mosqueira Bastos
      Pages 166-203
    6. Innovation through Long-distance Conversations? Experience from Offshoring-based Software Clusters in Bangalore, India
      Aya Okada
      Pages 204-227

  4. Market Pooling and Organizational Change as Drivers for Creating Cluster and Innovation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 229-229
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    2. A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Innovation in Japanese SMEs Generated by Information Communication Technology
      Masatsugu Tsuji, Shoichi Miyahara
      Pages 231-269
    3. The Role of the Specialized Markets in Upgrading Industrial Clusters in China
      Ke Ding
      Pages 270-289
    4. Industrial Clusters and Workplace Training to Expand Innovation Capability: Evidence from Manufacturing in the Greater Bangkok, Thailand
      Tomohiro Machikita
      Pages 290-325
    5. Innovation as a Driver for Building an Oil & Gas Industrial Cluster in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
      Antonio José Junqueira Botelho, Glaudson Mosqueira Bastos
      Pages 326-356
    6. Conclusion
      Akifumi Kuchiki, Masatsugu Tsuji
      Pages 357-359
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 361-369
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About this book

Introduction

This book provides a coherent and useful framework to explain the formation of agglomeration and the endogenous innovation process of upgrading industrial clusters to the higher R&D. It contains country studies including; China, India, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Keywords

agglomeration Brazil cluster clusters communication development information Information Communication innovation Japan learning manufacturing Mobile organizations software

Editors and affiliations

  • Akifumi Kuchiki
    • 1
  • Masatsugu Tsuji
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of International Development Studies, College of Bioresource SciencesNihon UniversityJapan
  2. 2.Graduate School of Applied InformaticsUniversity of HyogoJapan

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