Growing industrial clusters in Asia [[electronic resource] ] : serendipity and science / / edited by Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima, and Shoichi Yamashi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454024803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-38581-6; 9786611385811; 0-8213-7214-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Collana: Directions in development. Private sector development
• Altri autori (Persone): YusufShahid <1949->; NabeshimaKaoru; YamashitaShōichi <1938->
• Disciplina: 338.7
• Soggetti: Industrial clusters - Asia; High technology industries - Asia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Can Clusters Be Made to Order?; Table 1.1 Markusen's Typology of Industry Clusters; Table 1.2 State-Level Industrial Promotion Policies in the United States; Table 1.3 Patents Granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to Selected Economies, 1963-2006; Chapter 2 Lessons from the Development of Silicon Valley and Its Entrepreneurial Support Network for Japan; Figure 2.1 Genealogy of Silicon Valley Technologies: Stanford University, Hewlett-Packard, University of California-Berkeley, Xerox PARC, IBM San Jose, and University of California-San FranciscoFigure 2.2 Employment in Four Bay Area Counties, 1959-2001; Figure 2.3 Establishments in Four Bay Area Counties, 1959-2001; Chapter 3 The Emergence of Hsinchu Science Park as an IT Cluster; Table 3.1 Statistics of Hsinchu Science Park, 1981-2004; Figure 3.1 Percentages of Sales of Integrated Circuits and Computers and Peripherals in Hsinchu Science Park, 1984-2003; Table 3.2 Growth of Combined Sales by Industry, 1984-2004Chapter 4 Coping with Globalization of Production Networks and Digital Convergence: The Challenge of ICT Cluster Development in Singapore; Figure 4.1 Conceptual Framework of Information Economy; Table 4.1 Electronics Manufacturing Industry Growth in Singapore, 1960-2004; Table 4.2 Singapore's Share of World Electronics Production, 1985-2004; Table 4.3 Singapore Electronics Domestic Exports, 1980-2004; Table 4.4 Sectoral Composition of Value Added in Singapore's Electronics Industry, 1970-2004; Table 4.5 Top 20 Electronics Manufacturing Companies in Singapore, 1991-92Table 4.6 Top 20 Electronics Manufacturing Companies in Singapore, 2003; Table 4.7 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patents in ICT and Electronics Granted to Singapore-Based Inventors by Nationality of Assignee, 1976-2004; Table 4.8 Top USPTO ICT and Electronics Patent Holders of Singapore, 1976-2004; Table 4.9 Sectoral Composition of Value Added of Singapore's ICT Industry, 1986-2003; Table 4.10 ICT Services Industry Growth in Singapore, 1986-2003; Table 4.11 Sectoral Composition of Value Added of Singapore's ICT Services Industry, 1991-2003Table 4.12 Number of New Firms Registered in Electronics and ICT Industries, 1998-2004; Table 4.13 Top 20 ICT Services Companies in Singapore, 1991-92; Table 4.14 Top 20 ICT Services Companies in Singapore, 2003; Table 4.15 Information Communication Use in Singapore, Households, 1988-2004; Table 4.16 Selected ICT Diffusion Indicators for Singapore, 1990-2004; Table 4.17 International Comparison: IT as Percentage of GDP, 1999; Table 4.18 Ranking of Singapore in the Information Society Index, 1999-2004; Table 4.19 Broadband Market Data as of December 31, 2004
• Sommario/riassunto: Industrial clusters in Silicon Valley, Hsinchu Park, and northern Italy, and in the vicinity of Cambridge, U.K., have captured the imagination of policymakers, researchers, city planners and business people. Where clusters take root, they can generate valuable spillovers, promote innovation, and create the critical industrial mass for sustained growth. For cities such as Kitakyushu, Japan, that are faced with the erosion of their traditional industrial base and are threatened by economic decline, creating a cluster that would reverse the downward trends is enormously attractive. Growing Indust