Clusters Facing Competition: The Importance of External Linkages

Introduction, Elisa Giuliani, Roberta Rabellotti, Meine Pieter van Dijk Upgrading in global value chains: lessons from Latin American clusters, Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti Making value chain governance work for the implementation of quality, labour and environmental standards: upgrading challenges in the footwear industry, Lizbeth Navas-Aleman and Luiza Bazan Cooperation and upgrading in 'small' global chains: Vietnamese and Danish garment firms, Henrik Schaumburg-Muller Challenges to Vietnamese firms in the global garment and textile value chain, John Thoburn, Khalid Nadvi, Chris Edwards and Markus Eberhardt Multinational subsidiaries and manufacturing clusters in Guangdong, China, Filip De Beule, Daniel van den Bulcke and Luodan Xu Lead firms and clusters in the North and in the South: a comparison of the aerospace industry in Montreal and Sao Jose dos Campos, Andrea Goldstein Technological learning in a Chilean wine cluster and its linkages with the national system of innovation, Elisa Giuliani How do local institutions contribute to fostering competitiveness of industrial clusters? the upgrading process in the Italian eyewear system, Francesca Gambarotto and Stefano Solari A life cycle model for the creation of national venture industries: comparing the U.S. and Israeli experiences, Gil Avnimelech, Martin Kenney and Morris Teubal Cluster governance in an emerging city-wide ICT cluster in Nanjing, China, Meine Pieter van Dijk and Quanscheng Wang Industrial clusters in Mexico, Alejandro Davila Flores Firms interaction and industrial development: a simulation model, Tommaso Ciarli and Marco Valente Clusters facing competition: some concluding remarks, Elisa Giuliani and Roberta Rabellotti Index.