H Bathelt
Biographic Data
| ID | 12006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Bathelt |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Bathelt |
| SIGNATURE | BATHELT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0938-1765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1632 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Divergence of economic opportunity in average places: Pathways to growth
Research on urban-regional development tends to focus on city-regions with extreme economic outcomes (e.g., superstar cities, ‘left-behind’ places), with less attention paid to more normal, ‘average’ places. In this paper, we use fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to investigate conditions supporting significant growth in small and mid-sized U.S. urban regions that had average income levels in 1993 (our average places). We identify the in…
Knowledge transfers from business conferences to firms’ permanent locations
Studies on trade fairs, business conferences and similar events have explored the circumstances of such temporary face-to-face encounters, the types of communities that get together and their interaction patterns. Despite this research, there is no sound understanding of how firms transfer knowledge generated during these events to their permanent locations. This paper aims to contribute to closing this research gap by studying eight business con…
Subsidiary networks, connectivity, and urban-regional economic development
This paper argues that urban-regional income development depends on a larger fabric of economic relations at the national and international levels. Focusing on Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) in the US, the paper identifies firms’ subsidiary networks across space and their changes over time. These networks form a basic architecture through which important growth impulses in production and innovation are transmitted that impact urban income l…
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality
Social scientists and policymakers alike have become increasingly concerned with understanding the nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality in economic living conditions. Contemporary spatial inequality is multi-faceted—it varies depending on how we define inequality, the scale at which it is measured, and which groups in the labor force are considered. Increasing economic inequality has important implications for broader soc…
Making the Ontario craft beer market
Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres
Research identifies strong concentrations of economic activity in dynamic, major city regions, whereas shifts in economic linkages between these and smaller, less-advantaged city regions have been less investigated. Using data on firms’ investment/disinvestment decisions between 1993 and 2017, we show that the majority of ‘relational hinterlands’ (smaller, non-contiguous city regions with at least 1 investment tie to a global centre in 1993) in t…
Related Variety and Regional Development: A Critique
Evolutionary approaches in economic geography have contributed substantially to the growing body of knowledge of regional development processes and their underlying mechanisms. One key concept in the literature on evolutionary economic geography is that of related variety. Herein, regional industry structure is represented through the level of related variety of technologies, skills, or outputs. The related variety concept proposes that regional …
Models of Regional Economic Development: Illustrations Using U.S. Data
Considering stagnating regional prosperity levels and growing inter-regional disparities in many economies, this paper appeals for a renewed research agenda to deepen our understanding of regional economic development. This is done by discussing different conceptual perspectives, their empirical applications and open questions and suggestions for future research. Conventional approaches view development as an outcome of and dependent upon local e…
Spatial Knowledge Strategies: An Analysis of International Investments Using Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)
Knowledge generation is often viewed as a direct outcome of spatial proximity or other social affinities between firms. In rejecting structural interpretations, this article emphasizes the crucial role of agency in orchestrating knowledge transfer and generation over space. We explore how firms strategically leverage the uneven geography of knowledge in international investments and identify four spatial knowledge strategies according to the dire…
Building Better Methods in Economic Geography
This paper suggests that it is a timely task to aim at building better methods in economic geography. While economic geography is a vibrant field, it is characterized by methodological divides and fragmentations. In presenting a collection of five papers, we address these problems by suggesting to move forward in at least five directions: bridging the qualitative/quantitative divide, clarifying causality, selecting appropriate data, improving rig…
Learning in Context: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Analyze Knowledge Acquisition at Trade Fairs
Conceptualizations of trade fairs as temporary clusters have identified important learning processes at such events, particularly at leading international trade fairs – both in developed and developing countries. However, little attention has been paid to the home contexts of participating firms that may affect knowledge acquisition patterns. In particular, it is unclear which contextual factors may influence learning behavior. This paper aims to…
Are trade fairs relevant for local innovation knowledge networks? Evidence from Shanghai equipment manufacturing
The role of trade fairs in local innovation knowledge networks is studied by combining data on co-patenting networks in the Shanghai equipment manufacturing (machinery) industry with data from the Shanghai Metalworking and CNC Machine Tool Show (MWCS). Three propositions are developed, suggesting that: (1) local firms attending the MWCS are more research and development intensive than other firms; (2) trade fair attendees are linked with each oth…
Questioning cultural narratives of economic development: An investigation of Kitchener‐Waterloo
Key Messages The cultural narrative of how German immigrants have shaped today's technology economy and entrepreneurial culture in Kitchener‐Waterloo appears questionable. Members of Kitchener‐Waterloo's German community neither have strong professional ties with other members of that community, nor close connections with other regional communities. Kitchener‐Waterloo's German community has been absorbed into the region's self‐image and creates c…
Outward Foreign Direct Investments as a Catalyst of Urban-Regional Income Development? Evidence from the United States
Challenging populist views of outward foreign direct investments (OFDIs) that suggest they move prosperity abroad, this article builds a model suggesting that OFDIs support urban-regional income levels due to (1) labor; (2) knowledge; and (3) multiplier, spillover, and intermediate input effects. In a panel study of median incomes in US urban regions between 2005 and 2013, we first establish a base model that measures income as a function of loca…
Overcoming frictions in transnational knowledge flows: Challenges of connecting, sense-making and integrating
The increasing interconnection of local, trans-local and transnational knowledge networks is the outcome of the coevolution of (i) knowledge centers, typically city regions, (ii) epistemic communities that are grounded in and connect these regions and (iii) firms, usually multinational enterprises (MNEs). This interaction has created opportunities for innovation, but it is also impeded by a range of frictions that arise in the process of integrat…
From temporary market to temporary cluster: Evolution of the Canton Fair
This paper shows how the nature of a trade fair can change over time from a temporary marketplace and field-configuring event towards a temporary cluster and complex learning space. Drawing from market-oriented and knowledge-based conceptualizations of trade fairs that analyze the different dimensions, interaction processes between participants and impacts of these events, this paper suggests that trade fairs are highly flexible organizational fo…
Conceptualizing multiple clusters in mega-city regions: The case of the biomedical industry in Beijing
Temporary Knowledge Ecologies: The Rise of Trade Fairs in the Asia-Pacific Region
Temporary Knowledge Ecologies investigates and theorizes the nature, rise and evolution of trade fair knowledge ecologies in the Asia-Pacific region. It provides a comprehensive overview of trade fairs in this key world region applying a comparative perspective that involves highly diverse developed and developing countries. The book identifies (i) knowledge generation and transfer processes through trade fairs, (ii) interrelationships between in…
Trade Shows in the Globalizing Knowledge Economy
1. Introduction PART I. TOWARD A KNOWLEDGE-BASED UNDERSTANDING OF TRADE SHOWS 2. Functions of Trade Shows: A Historical Perspective 3. Temporary Markets and Temporary Clusters 4. A Knowledge-based Typology of Trade Shows and Knowledge Strategies of Trade Show Organizers 5. Trade Show Specialization and Territorial Specialization PART II. TRADE SHOW DYNAMICS IN GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT 6. Trade Show Dynamics in Mature Markets 1: Europe 7. Trade Show D…
The creation of knowledge: Local building, global accessing and economic development—toward an agenda
This article argues that local knowledge building and global (nonlocal) knowledge-accessing practices in economic development are intrinsically interwoven. They generate fundamental feedback loops, which are channeled through and lead to ongoing knowledge circulation. To better understand the nature of the specific mechanisms and conditions underlying these processes, three key areas of research are identified for current and future research. The…
Knowledge generation and field reproduction in temporary clusters and the role of business conferences
The Geographies of Knowledge Transfers over Distance: Toward a Typology
In the globalizing knowledge economy firms have become less reliant on local production and market networks and increasingly expand their reach to an international or global scale. The argument of this paper suggests that this has given rise to distinct geographies of knowledge transfers over distance, which rely on periodic or regular temporary face-to-face contacts. While some of these settings of temporary knowledge transfers have existed for …
The Development of Trade Fair Ecologies in China: Case Studies from Chengdu and Shanghai
Despite China's rapid economic growth and embedding into global value chains, not much is known about the primary places where buyers and sellers from China and abroad meet, do business, and circulate information and knowledge: That is, the national/international trade fairs in the country. Previous reports suggest that the number and size of such events in China is growing and that the trade fair business is in the process of catching up. Under …
Global cluster networks—foreign direct investment flows from Canada to China
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Geography following peer review. The version of record [Bathelt, H., & Li, P. F. (2014). Global cluster networks – Foreign direct investment flows from Canada to China. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(1), 45-71.] is available online at: http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/1/45 [doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbt005]
Institutional change in economic geography
This paper develops a rigorous concept of institutions to investigate the interrelationships between institutional and economic change from the perspective of economic geography. We view institutions neither as behavioural regularities nor as organizations or rules, but conceive institutions as stabilizations of mutual expectations and correlated interaction. The paper discusses how economic interaction in space is shaped by existing institutions…
Clusters and knowledge: Local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation
The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in interactive learning processes. It questions the view that tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus whereas codified knowledge may roam the globe almost frictionlessly. The paper highlights the conditions under which both tacit and codified knowledge can be exchanged locally and globally. A distinction is ma…
Toward a relational economic geography
Journal Article Toward a relational economic geography Get access Harald Bathelt, Harald Bathelt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Johannes Glückler Johannes Glückler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1 April 2003, Pages 117-144, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/3.2.117 Published: 01 April 2003
Building global knowledge pipelines: The role of temporary clusters
Business people and professionals come together regularly at trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions, congresses, and conferences. Here, their latest and most advanced findings, inventions and products are on display to be evaluated by customers and suppliers, as well as by peers and competitors. Participation in events like these helps firms to identify the current market frontier, take stock of relative competitive positions and form future plans…
Institutional change in economic geography
This paper develops a rigorous concept of institutions to investigate the interrelationships between institutional and economic change from the perspective of economic geography. We view institutions neither as behavioural regularities nor as organizations or rules, but conceive institutions as stabilizations of mutual expectations and correlated interaction. The paper discusses how economic interaction in space is shaped by existing institutions…
Between Luminaires and Meat Grinders: International Trade Fairs as Temporary Clusters
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & \nFrancis in Regional Studies on Jul 2008, available online: \nhttp://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00343400701543298
Local, global and virtual buzz: The importance of face-to-face contact in economic interaction and possibilities to go beyond
The Geographies of Knowledge Transfers over Distance: Toward a Typology
In the globalizing knowledge economy firms have become less reliant on local production and market networks and increasingly expand their reach to an international or global scale. The argument of this paper suggests that this has given rise to distinct geographies of knowledge transfers over distance, which rely on periodic or regular temporary face-to-face contacts. While some of these settings of temporary knowledge transfers have existed for …
Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective 3 - toward a relational view of economic action and policy
The version of record [Bathelt, H. (2006). Geographies of production: \nGrowth regimes in spatial perspective 3 – Toward a relational view of \neconomic action and policy. Progress in Human Geography, 30(2), 223-236.] \nis available online at: \nhttp://phg.sagepub.com/content/30/2/223 \n[doi: 10.1191/0309132506ph603pr]
Cluster Relations in the Media Industry: Exploring the 'Distanced Neighbour' Paradox in Leipzig
Bathelt H. (2005) Cluster relations in the media industry: exploring the 'distanced neighbour' paradox in Leipzig, Regional Studies39, 105-127. This paper uses a multidimensional cluster concept that views processes of knowledge creation as being decisive in explaining how clusters are established, why they grow and how they reproduce themselves. It is suggested that clusters can only create new knowledge and continue to grow if the cluster firms…
Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective (II) - knowledge creation and growth in clusters
The version of record [Bathelt, H. (2005). Geographies of production: \nGrowth regimes in spatial perspective (II) – Knowledge creation and \ngrowth in clusters. Progress in Human Geography, 29(2), 204-216.] is \navailable online at: \nhttp://phg.sagepub.com/content/29/2/204 \n[doi: 10.1191/0309132505ph539pr]
Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective 1-innovation, institutions and social systems
The version of record [Bathelt, H. (2003). Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective 1 – Innovation, institutions and social systems. Progress in Human Geography, 27(6), 763-778.] is available online at:http://phg.sagepub.com/content/27/6/763 \n[doi: 10.1191/0309132503ph462pr]
Resources in Economic Geography: From Substantive Concepts towards a Relational Perspective
Resources are crucial for the technological and economic development of firms in spatial perspective. In this paper we contrast two ways of conceptualizing resources, and argue that a conventional, substantive understanding implies a number of shortcomings which can be overcome through the application of a relational conception of resources. In examining four types of resources-material resources, knowledge, power, and social capital-our argument…
Clusters, power and place: Inequality and local growth in time–space
The argument of this paper is that a deeper appreciation of the nature of the power relationships between firms and the circuits of power that bind them together is key to understanding how clusters function — including how they might emerge and how they might decline. We begin to develop a conceptualization that allows us to generate a deeper understanding of the processes that enable the production and reproduction of enterprise clusters under …
The creation of knowledge: Local building, global accessing and economic development—toward an agenda
This article argues that local knowledge building and global (nonlocal) knowledge-accessing practices in economic development are intrinsically interwoven. They generate fundamental feedback loops, which are channeled through and lead to ongoing knowledge circulation. To better understand the nature of the specific mechanisms and conditions underlying these processes, three key areas of research are identified for current and future research. The…
Global cluster networks—foreign direct investment flows from Canada to China
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Geography following peer review. The version of record [Bathelt, H., & Li, P. F. (2014). Global cluster networks – Foreign direct investment flows from Canada to China. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(1), 45-71.] is available online at: http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/1/45 [doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbt005]
Network dynamics and cluster evolution: Changing trajectories of the aluminium extrusion industry in Dali, China
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted \nfor publication in Journal of Economic Geography following peer review. \nThe version of record [Li, P. F., Bathelt, H., & Wang, J. (2012). \nNetwork dynamics and cluster evolution: Changing trajectories of the \naluminium extrusion industry in Dali, China. Journal of Economic \nGeography, 12(1), 127-155.] is available online at: \nhttp://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/1/1…
Knowledge generation and field reproduction in temporary clusters and the role of business conferences
Challenges of Transformation: Innovation, Re-bundling and Traditional Manufacturing in Canada's Technology Triangle
Bathelt H., Munro A. K. and Spigel B. Challenges of transformation: innovation, re-bundling and traditional manufacturing in Canada's Technology Triangle, Regional Studies. This paper develops a perspective of regional re-bundling in overcoming economic crises. It does this by focusing on the effects of the recent global financial crisis on traditional manufacturing. It analyses the structure of innovation processes and their development over tim…
Exporting the German Model: The Establishment of a New Automobile Industry Cluster in Shanghai
Recent work has provided evidence that the establishment of new industry clusters cannot be jump-started through policy initiatives alone. This evidence does not imply, however, that the genesis of a new cluster cannot be planned at all. Especially in the context of a developing economy, it seems useful to reinvestigate the relation among economic development, the strategies of multinational firms, and state intervention in this respect. Drawing …
Learning in ‘Organized Anarchies’: The Nature of Technological Search Processes at Trade Fairs
Bathelt H. and Gibson R. Learning in ‘organized anarchies’: the nature of technological search processes at trade fairs, Regional Studies. Trade fairs have become an important temporary organizational form for the establishment of inter-firm linkages and networks. Despite recent insights into the nature of knowledge flows, the causal mechanisms linking trade fairs to processes of technological searches and choices remain underspecified. Taking th…
Toward a Reconceptualization of Regional Development Paths: Is Leipzig's Media Cluster a Continuation of or a Rupture with the Past
This article develops a model of regional development that is then used to examine the evolution of two media industries in Leipzig, Germany. We note that the city's current media cluster, centered on television/film production and interactive digital media, shares little in common with the city's once-premier book publishing media cluster. Treating interactive learning as the primary causal mechanism that drives economic growth and change, our c…
Overcoming frictions in transnational knowledge flows: Challenges of connecting, sense-making and integrating
The increasing interconnection of local, trans-local and transnational knowledge networks is the outcome of the coevolution of (i) knowledge centers, typically city regions, (ii) epistemic communities that are grounded in and connect these regions and (iii) firms, usually multinational enterprises (MNEs). This interaction has created opportunities for innovation, but it is also impeded by a range of frictions that arise in the process of integrat…
The German Variety of Capitalism: Forces and Dynamics of Evolutionary Change
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Bathelt, H., & Gertler, M. S. (2005). The German variety of capitalism: Forces and dynamics of evolutionary change. Economic Geography, 81(1), 1-9.], which has been published in final form at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2005.tb00252.x/abstract. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archivin…
Internal and External Dynamics of the Munich Film and TV Industry Cluster, and Limitations to Future Growth
This analysis uses the case of a seemingly successful industry cluster (ie the film and TV industry in Munich) to demonstrate that deficits in the structure of social relations can impact a cluster's growth potential. In the period after World War II, Munich grew into a national centre of media industries in Germany due to the introduction of private/commercial TV, national entry barriers, and a supportive institutional infrastructure. The recent…
Buzz-and-Pipeline Dynamics: Towards a Knowledge-Based Multiplier Model of Clusters
This article critically reviews the idea that regional prosperity and growth are heavily dependent on regional industry networks. In contrast with this view, a cluster approach is presented which emphasises both the need for close local networksandstrong extralocal or global linkages. The approach argues that local interaction or 'buzz' and interaction through translocal 'pipelines' create a dynamic process of learning, knowledge production and i…
Key Technology Industries in the Waterloo Region: Canada's Technology Triangle (Ctt)
Key technology industries, or high‐tech industries, as they are frequently called, are often thought to provide a community with a sound economic base for present and future development. For this reason many communities try to attract or nurture such industries. This article presents results from a sample of 33 key technology firms in Canada's Technology Triangle (CTT), consisting of the cities of Guelph, Cambridge, and Kitchener‐Waterloo. It sug…
Zur Interpretation von Hauptkomponenten und Faktoren: Eine Wiederaufnahme der kritischen Diskussion faktorenanalytischer Verfahren
Employment Changes and Input–Output Linkages in Key Technology Industries: A Comparative Analysis
BATHELT H. (1991) Employment changes and input-output linkages in key technology industries: a comparative analysis, Reg. Studies 25, 31–43. In order to achieve a better understanding of employment changes and input-output linkages of key technology firms, it was considered necessary to undertake a survey among key technology firms (identified by three-digit SIC codes) from five key technology regions in North America. The regions of Boston (Mass…
Räumliche Verteilungsaspekte von Schlüsseltechnologie-Industrien in den USA und in Kanada
Der Einfluss von Flexibilisierungsprozessen auf industrielle Produktionsstrukturen am Beispiel der chemischen Industrie
Netzwerke, Lernen und evolutionäre Regionalentwicklung
The Re-emergence of a Media Industry Cluster in Leipzig
This paper begins with the proposition that an analysis of the potentialities of industrial networks has to consider the wider context of the social organization of production. Recent work on industrial clustering has shown that successful clusters are embedded in tight networks of social relations between suppliers, producers, customers and institutions. Localized capabilities, such as specialized resources and skills, conventions and other loca…
Clusters, Power and Place: Inequality and Local Growth in Time-Space
The argument of this paper is that a deeper appreciation of the nature of the power relationships between firms and the circuits of power that bind them together is key to understanding how clusters function — including how they might emerge and how they might decline. We begin to develop a conceptualization that allows us to generate a deeper understanding of the processes that enable the production and reproduction of enterprise clusters under …
Clusters, power and place: Inequality and local growth in time–space
The argument of this paper is that a deeper appreciation of the nature of the power relationships between firms and the circuits of power that bind them together is key to understanding how clusters function — including how they might emerge and how they might decline. We begin to develop a conceptualization that allows us to generate a deeper understanding of the processes that enable the production and reproduction of enterprise clusters under …
Innovation, Institution und Region: Zur Diskussion über nationale und regionale Innovationssysteme
Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective 1-innovation, institutions and social systems
The version of record [Bathelt, H. (2003). Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective 1 – Innovation, institutions and social systems. Progress in Human Geography, 27(6), 763-778.] is available online at:http://phg.sagepub.com/content/27/6/763 \n[doi: 10.1191/0309132503ph462pr]
Toward a relational economic geography
Journal Article Toward a relational economic geography Get access Harald Bathelt, Harald Bathelt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Johannes Glückler Johannes Glückler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1 April 2003, Pages 117-144, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/3.2.117 Published: 01 April 2003
Toward a Reconceptualization of Regional Development Paths: Is Leipzig's Media Cluster a Continuation of or a Rupture with the Past
This article develops a model of regional development that is then used to examine the evolution of two media industries in Leipzig, Germany. We note that the city's current media cluster, centered on television/film production and interactive digital media, shares little in common with the city's once-premier book publishing media cluster. Treating interactive learning as the primary causal mechanism that drives economic growth and change, our c…
Vom "Rauschen" und "Pfeifen" in Clustern: Reflexive Informations- und Kommunikationsstrukturen im Unternehmensumfeld
Dieser Beitrag beginnt mit dem scheinbaren Widerspruch, dass regionale Industrieballungcn weiterhin wachsen und wettbewerbsfähig sind, obwohl Prozesse der Globalisierung auf ihren Abbau hinwirken. Es wird argumentiert, dass dies durch das Zusammenwirken der Prozesse der Ubiquitifizierung und Kontextualisierung möglich ist, wodurch Unternehmen in Clustern Zugang zu neuem Wissen erhalten, das sie mit bestehendem Wissen vor Ort neu kombinieren könne…
Clusters and knowledge: Local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation
The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in interactive learning processes. It questions the view that tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus whereas codified knowledge may roam the globe almost frictionlessly. The paper highlights the conditions under which both tacit and codified knowledge can be exchanged locally and globally. A distinction is ma…
Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective (II) - knowledge creation and growth in clusters
The version of record [Bathelt, H. (2005). Geographies of production: \nGrowth regimes in spatial perspective (II) – Knowledge creation and \ngrowth in clusters. Progress in Human Geography, 29(2), 204-216.] is \navailable online at: \nhttp://phg.sagepub.com/content/29/2/204 \n[doi: 10.1191/0309132505ph539pr]
Cluster Relations in the Media Industry: Exploring the 'Distanced Neighbour' Paradox in Leipzig
Bathelt H. (2005) Cluster relations in the media industry: exploring the 'distanced neighbour' paradox in Leipzig, Regional Studies39, 105-127. This paper uses a multidimensional cluster concept that views processes of knowledge creation as being decisive in explaining how clusters are established, why they grow and how they reproduce themselves. It is suggested that clusters can only create new knowledge and continue to grow if the cluster firms…
Resources in Economic Geography: From Substantive Concepts towards a Relational Perspective
Resources are crucial for the technological and economic development of firms in spatial perspective. In this paper we contrast two ways of conceptualizing resources, and argue that a conventional, substantive understanding implies a number of shortcomings which can be overcome through the application of a relational conception of resources. In examining four types of resources-material resources, knowledge, power, and social capital-our argument…
Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective 3 - toward a relational view of economic action and policy
The version of record [Bathelt, H. (2006). Geographies of production: \nGrowth regimes in spatial perspective 3 – Toward a relational view of \neconomic action and policy. Progress in Human Geography, 30(2), 223-236.] \nis available online at: \nhttp://phg.sagepub.com/content/30/2/223 \n[doi: 10.1191/0309132506ph603pr]
Building global knowledge pipelines: The role of temporary clusters
Business people and professionals come together regularly at trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions, congresses, and conferences. Here, their latest and most advanced findings, inventions and products are on display to be evaluated by customers and suppliers, as well as by peers and competitors. Participation in events like these helps firms to identify the current market frontier, take stock of relative competitive positions and form future plans…
The organizational paradox in advertising and the reconfiguration of project cooperation
Buzz-and-Pipeline Dynamics: Towards a Knowledge-Based Multiplier Model of Clusters
This article critically reviews the idea that regional prosperity and growth are heavily dependent on regional industry networks. In contrast with this view, a cluster approach is presented which emphasises both the need for close local networksandstrong extralocal or global linkages. The approach argues that local interaction or 'buzz' and interaction through translocal 'pipelines' create a dynamic process of learning, knowledge production and i…
Between Luminaires and Meat Grinders: International Trade Fairs as Temporary Clusters
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & \nFrancis in Regional Studies on Jul 2008, available online: \nhttp://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00343400701543298
Necessary restructuring or globalization failure? Shifts in regional supplier relations after the merger of the former German Hoechst and French Rhône-Poulenc groups
Internal and External Dynamics of the Munich Film and TV Industry Cluster, and Limitations to Future Growth
This analysis uses the case of a seemingly successful industry cluster (ie the film and TV industry in Munich) to demonstrate that deficits in the structure of social relations can impact a cluster's growth potential. In the period after World War II, Munich grew into a national centre of media industries in Germany due to the introduction of private/commercial TV, national entry barriers, and a supportive institutional infrastructure. The recent…
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