Business Clusters

I. Introduction -- II. Section 1 - Regional Economic Clusters - an Empirical Perspective -- 1. Cluster or Satellite Platform: A Comparative Study/John Hobbs, Richard Maloney, and Michael Walsh -- 2. Technology Specialists as Knowledge Gatekeepers/Rebecca Mitchell, John Burgess, Jennifer Waterhouse, and Karen McNeil -- 3. Creating Competitive Advantage through Collaboration: An Action Led Research Approach/Martin Rahe, Mariano Najles, and Jordi Garcia -- 4. Clusters as a Tool for Increasing the Performance of Companies: Good Practices Used by Selected Clusters/Eva Jircikova -- 5. Models and Approaches to Measuring and Managing Performance of Clusters and Cluster Initiatives/Adriana Knapkova, Drahomira Pavelkova, and Libor Friedel -- 6. Are Firms in Knowledge and Technology-Intensive Sectors Located within Regional Clusters more Effi cient? Some Empirical Evidence from Eastern Europe/Kornelia Kozovska -- 7. Differences and Similarities in Conditions for the Establishment and Development of Clusters in Poland and the Czech Republic/Magdalena Bialic and Drahomira Pavelkova -- 8. CSR, Cluster Groups, and Stakeholder Engagement in the Indian Context: Towards Sustainable Government Structures/Catherine Nickerson and Subrat Sahu -- 9. Application of Real Options Analysis for Biotech-Cluster Formation: Optimal Investment Timing of Biotech Start-ups Under Uncertainty/Takao Fujiwara -- 10. Industrial Clusters, Human Capital, and Regional Growth/Nibedita Saha and Drahomira Pavelkova -- III. Section 2 - Clusters and Public Policy -- 11. Regional Development and the "Dubai Model": Some Observations and Experiences/Julia Connell and Michael Thorpe -- 12. Public Policies to Enhance Cluster Development/Kerry Brown, John Burgess, Marion Festing, Robyn Keast, Susanne Royer, Charlotte Steffen and Jennifer Waterhouse -- 13. The "Visible" Hand: Government Policy's Effect on Regional Competitive Clusters/Ram Subramanian and C. Jayachandran -- IV. Section 3 - Case Studies on Clusters -- 14. Development of and Success Factors in a Mexican Software Cluster/Claudia Diaz-Perez -- 15. TIC Cluster in Asturias (Spain): A Success Case/Karla Paola Jimenez and Beatriz Junquera -- 16. Spatial Clusters in Organic Farming - A Case Study of Pulses Cultivation in Karnataka/Gopal Naik and Vishnuprasad Nagadevara -- 17. The Impact of Educational and Banking Industry Clusters on Urban Land Expansion: An Exploratory Study of Mangalore City of Karnataka, India/U. Arabi and Mustaf -- Author Biographies.