Defining clusters of related industries

Defining And Valuing Dublin’s Creative Industries

Defining Data Clusters

Clustering has been exten­ sively studied in data analy­ sis. However, clustering theories have thus far been unsatisfactory to justify use of the many proposed algorithms. A fun­ damental question is this: How do we define a cluster in a set of data points? In “A Mathematical Theory for Clus­ tering in Metric Spaces,” Cheng­Shang Chang and his colleagues attempt to answer this question by cons...

Cultural industries and creative clusters in Shanghai

This paper is based on a 3-year (2008–2011) research project (This project has received funding from Australian Research Council between 2008 and 2011. Project no. LP0991136. The official title of the project is ‘Designing Creative Clusters in Australian and China’. This project works in partnership between Queensland University of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, ARUP and ‘Creative 10...

Innovation Clusters and Determinants of Innovativeness in Manufacturing Industries

Innovation is an important source of competitiveness and is studied extensively by both the academicians and the practitioners particularly in the last decades. This study is based on the results of an exploratory study conducted in the Northern Marmara region of Turkey covering 184 manufacturing firms. A model is developed to determine the determinants of innovativeness and data is gathered th...

The long-term evolution vertically-related industries

The paper develops the argument that the long-term structural evolution of an industry depends on the evolution of a vertically-related, downstream industry. We analyse two pairs of vertically-related industries, the jet and turboprop aircraft and engine industries, since the first introduction of the jet and turboprop technologies to 1998. The paper shows that the evolutionary dynamics of the ...