The semiconductor industry is examined in order to explain the different types of institutional frameworks underlying the various notions of industrial cluster and to investigate possible relationships between clustering and innovative regional development. Following a general discussion of the...

Books reviewed: A. Stewart Fotheringham and Michael Wegener (eds.), Spatial Models and GIS: New Potential and New Models Aura Reggiani (ed.), Spatial Economic Science: New Frontiers in Theory and Methodology Jean-Claude Thill (ed.), Geographic Information Systems in Transportation Research...

Disambiguates theories of industrial clusters by providing a framework of three ideal-typical forms of clustering: the classic model of pure agglomeration, the industrial-complex model, and the social network or club model. The first two of these models come from classical and neoclassical...