Mind the Gap: Regionale Clusterpolitik im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis aus der Perspektive der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie
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Matthias Kiese
Mind the Gap: Regional cluster policies between science, politics and practice from a public choice perspective. Since the 1990s, the cluster concept’s ongoing popularity with politicians and economic development practitioners has largely bypassed scientific research which is still struggling to come to grips with theory and empirics of clusters. Based on an interview survey of ten case studies of regional cluster policies at the state and sub-state level in Western Germany, this paper investigates the contribution of scientific cluster research to the current practice of cluster promotion. It is found that following political and bureaucratic rationalities, conceptualisation and implementation of cluster policies largely ignore theoretical insights and make only incomplete use of scientific methods available for proper cluster identification. This has important implications for both practice and research, and highlights that economic geographers should overcome their reluctance to engage with policy and employ their core competencies to make their voices heard in the arena of policy and practice.
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- The rise of anchor countries
- Global shifts caused by the rise of anchor countries
- Environmental problems and environmental governance in the context of dynamic economic growth – the case of China
- India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) – a new geography of trade and technology cooperation?
- China – growth engine or obstacle for Asian developing economies?
- Buchbesprechungen
- Cluster – zur Dynamik von Begrifflichkeiten und Konzeptionen
- Clusterförderung auf dem Prüfstand
- Formierung und Wirkungsgefüge regionaler Technologiecluster
- Zufälle und Agglomerationseffekte bei der Clusterentstehung
- Mind the Gap: Regionale Clusterpolitik im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis aus der Perspektive der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie
- Cluster dynamics and policy implications
- Ansatzpunkte einer relationalen Regionalpolitik und Clusterförderung
- Rezensionsartikel. Der Clusteransatz als Deus ex Machina der regionalen Wirtschaftsförderung?
- The technology park Berlin-Adlershof as an example of spatial proximity in regional economic policy
- Competencies in subsidiaries of multinational companies
- Downgrading by improvement?
- Globalisierung, Monetarisierung und Nachhaltigkeit
- Buchbesprechungen 1
Artikel in diesem Heft
- The rise of anchor countries
- Global shifts caused by the rise of anchor countries
- Environmental problems and environmental governance in the context of dynamic economic growth – the case of China
- India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) – a new geography of trade and technology cooperation?
- China – growth engine or obstacle for Asian developing economies?
- Buchbesprechungen
- Cluster – zur Dynamik von Begrifflichkeiten und Konzeptionen
- Clusterförderung auf dem Prüfstand
- Formierung und Wirkungsgefüge regionaler Technologiecluster
- Zufälle und Agglomerationseffekte bei der Clusterentstehung
- Mind the Gap: Regionale Clusterpolitik im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis aus der Perspektive der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie
- Cluster dynamics and policy implications
- Ansatzpunkte einer relationalen Regionalpolitik und Clusterförderung
- Rezensionsartikel. Der Clusteransatz als Deus ex Machina der regionalen Wirtschaftsförderung?
- The technology park Berlin-Adlershof as an example of spatial proximity in regional economic policy
- Competencies in subsidiaries of multinational companies
- Downgrading by improvement?
- Globalisierung, Monetarisierung und Nachhaltigkeit
- Buchbesprechungen 1
