This research elucidates the trip pattern of the low-density residential zone in a semi-urban industrial cluster of southwestern Nigeria. These sets of dwellers are often times neglected in the transportation planning process with the view that it is not a residential zone. Domiciliary information gathering procedure was employed in the analysis with 0.82 return rates. It was backed up with the...

This paper combines input–output analysis with non-negative matrix factorization analysis widely used in the image segmentation and attempts to find the target industrial groups (industrial clusters) in Japan that have intensive CO 2 emissions. We generalized the industrial cluster analysis proposed by Kagawa et al. (2012) to identify environmentally-important industrial clusters from the entir...

Analysis of the impact of architecture model of cluster management on the strategy of its innovative and investment development, ongoing innovation activities, the growth of innovative capacity and effectiveness of development projects due to the appearance of architectural synergy. Key-Words: industrial cluster architecture, business architecture, IT architecture, cluster development projects,...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to explore why the entrepreneurial activities are agglomerative in a cluster and to investigate the government agencies’ functions in the industry cluster that can construct favourable environment for entrepreneurial development. Design/methodology/approach – The case study method is chosen to collect in-depth data to investigate the research domain, and th...

The cluster-level architectural knowledge is the source to maintain sustainable competitive advantage of clusters. To develop the knowledge-based theory of clusters, the authors chose Dalian Software Park as the object of study, and work strictly according to scientific research process of the case study method. Firstly, they put forward the research questions and established the subject of the...

The local formation, and benefits, of industrial clusters have received considerable research attention during the past decade. In some extreme versions, clusters are hailed as a universal panacea for local and regional development because of their alleged greater propensity to reduce transaction costs, to promote inter-firm learning, innovation, and knowledge transfer and, as a result, to incr...

Metallic alloys show complex chemistries that are not yet understood so far. It has been widely accepted that behind the composition selection lies a short-range-order mechanism for solid solutions. The present paper addresses this fundamental question by examining the face-centered-cubic Cu-Zn α-brasses. A new structural approach, the cluster-plus-glue-atom model, is introduced, which suits sp...