From Agglomeration to Innovation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Masatsugu Tsuji, Akifumi Kuchiki

      Pages 1-11

3. Learning Linkage as Drivers for Creating Cluster and Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The Automobile Industry Cluster in Malaysia

      • Akifumi Kuchiki

      Pages 15-49

   3. Industrial Cluster Development and Innovation in Singapore

      • Poh-Kam Wong, Yuen-Ping Ho, Annette Singh

      Pages 50-116

   4. Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Upgrading and Innovation of Japanese SMEs and Industrial Clustering

      • Shoichi Miyahara, Masatsugu Tsuji

      Pages 117-165

   5. Collective Goods for Reformatting the Rio de Janeiro Software Cluster into a Local Innovation System

      • Antonio José Junqueira Botelho, Alex da Silva Alves, Glaudson Mosqueira Bastos

      Pages 166-203

   6. Innovation through Long-distance Conversations? Experience from Offshoring-based Software Clusters in Bangalore, India

      • Aya Okada

      Pages 204-227

4. Market Pooling and Organizational Change as Drivers for Creating Cluster and Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Innovation in Japanese SMEs Generated by Information Communication Technology

      • Masatsugu Tsuji, Shoichi Miyahara

      Pages 231-269

   3. The Role of the Specialized Markets in Upgrading Industrial Clusters in China

      • Ke Ding

      Pages 270-289

   4. Industrial Clusters and Workplace Training to Expand Innovation Capability: Evidence from Manufacturing in the Greater Bangkok, Thailand

      • Tomohiro Machikita

      Pages 290-325

   5. Innovation as a Driver for Building an Oil & Gas Industrial Cluster in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

      • Antonio José Junqueira Botelho, Glaudson Mosqueira Bastos

      Pages 326-356

   6. Conclusion

      • Akifumi Kuchiki, Masatsugu Tsuji

      Pages 357-359

5. Back Matter

   Pages 361-369

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This book provides a coherent and useful framework to explain the formation of agglomeration and the endogenous innovation process of upgrading industrial clusters to the higher R&D. It contains country studies including; China, India, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.

• agglomeration
• Brazil
• cluster
• clusters
• communication
• development
• information
• Information Communication
• innovation
• Japan
• learning
• manufacturing
• Mobile
• organizations
• software

• Department of International Development Studies, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Japan

  Akifumi Kuchiki

• Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo, Japan

  Masatsugu Tsuji

AKIFUMI KUCHIKI is Professor at Nihon University, Japan. He was Executive Vice President of Japan External Organization and his previous publications include The Flowchart Model of Cluster Policy, International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management (2008), Industrial Clusters in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan with Tsuji, 2005) and The Flowchart Approach to Industrial Cluster Policy (Palgrave Macmillan with Tsuji, 2008).

MASATSUGA TSUJI is Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo, Japan and Professor emeritus, Osaka University. Received a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Publications include The Internet Revolution: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and The Flowchart Approach to Industrial Cluster Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

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