The elaboration of a conceptually grounded and easily replicable set of indicators for gauging the current state and future prospects for cluster development is an essential aid for both policy makers and cluster advocates. Many different methods and techniques for analyzing clusters have been proposed in the literature, but no standardized approach has emerged, and numerous challenges exist in...

This paper outlines the development of a high-tech industrial cluster through the efforts of entrepreneurs who adapted to both constructive crises and new opportunities, creating the factors and conditions that facilitated their business interests. We examine the initial factors influencing individual decisions to become entrepreneurs and how external factors influence the formation and locatio...

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A special thank also to the actors of collective efficiency with whom I am learning by doing... Abstract This paper proposes to give collective efficiency an explicit content: efficiency of collective initiative, cluster and network dynamics. For major actors within society, like farmers and small entrepreneurs, the only way to build sustainable development is through the strengthening of their...

Dahu, a small township in northern Taiwan, is famous for its produce of strawberries. Near Dahu, there are some attractions, such as hot springs, native Taiwanese tribes and a national park named Shei-pa. In order to better support more small businesses in this area, the local government is eager to promote an industrial cluster of agriculture and tourism based on the well-developed strawberry ...

Similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task in modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology, medical imaging, computer aided engineering, marketing and purchasing assistance as well as many others. In this paper, we show how visualizing the hierarchical clustering structure of a database of objects can aid the user in his time consuming t...

Wireless Sensor Network consists of large number of Sensor Nodes. The main aim is to increase the lifetime of the network as the sensors are deployed mainly to perform unattended operations like Environmental Monitoring, Seismic activity Detection, Industrial Monitoring and Control etc. All these activities require Robust Wireless Communication Protocol with low power consumption. This paper de...

The School of Computer Engineering (SCE), which organized this conference, is one of the five engineering schools in the College of Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. The other schools are the School of Civil and Environment Engineering, the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the School of Materials Engineering, and the School of Mechanical and Production Engineering...

As manufacturing becomes a truly global affair, the basis of competition will no longer be between individual companies and their supply chains but between regional industrial clusters. Large multi-nationals can relocate operations to any part of the world, with significant impact on the regions into and out of which they move. This has significant implications for economic development in any r...

(80 words for the limit of 80) The Marxian “dual economy” became obsolete after the mid-20th century, and collaborative network arrangements between large and small firms became widely practiced after the 1980s. For many SMEs in industrial districts, with the explosion of globalization, partnership experiences were disappointing. Our network analysis of a giant Tokyo industrial cluster shows a ...