CONTENTS List of tables and figures vii Notes on contributors ix Preface xvii 1 The rise of the cluster concept in regional analysis and policy: a critical assessment 1 RJORN ASHEIM, PHILIP COOKE AND U.ON MARTIN 2 What qualifies as a cluster theory? 30 PETER MASKELL AND LEILA KEHIK 3 True clusters: a severe case of conceptual headache 50 ANDERS MALMHEIU; AND DOMINIC POWER 4In search of a useful theory of spatial clustering: agglomeration versus active clustering 69 FIORI-NZA HELUSSI 5Cutting through the chaos: towards a new typology of industrial districts and clusters 90 IVANA PANICCIA 6 Entrepreneurs as agents in the formation of industrial clusters 115 MARYANN FFI DMAN ANDJOHANNA L. FKANCIS 7 Innovation, learning and cluster dynamics 137 HART NOOTEBOOM 8 Do clusters or innovation systems drive competitiveness? 164 JAMES S1MMIE 9 The role of clusters in knowledge creation and diffusion: an institutional perspective 188 DAVID B. AUDRETSCH AND EK1K R. LEHMANN 10 Do clusters 'think'?: an institutional perspective on knowledge creation and diffusion in clusters 199 MICHAEL STEINER 11 Spaces of knowledge flows: clusters in a global context 218 MhRIC S. C1ERTLER AND DAVID A. WOLFE 12 Spatial and organizational patterns of labor markets in industrial clusters: the case of Hollywood 236 ALIEN J. SCOT I 13 Cluster and hinterland: when is a proactive cluster policy appropriate? 255 G. M. PETER SWANN 14 Putting clusters in their place 272 NICK HLNKY, JANE POLLARD AND PAUL BENNEWOKTH Name index 292 Subject index 296