industrial cluster
description: a geographical concentration of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field, often leading to various economic advantages.
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The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World
by James Ashton · 11 May 2023 · 401pp · 113,586 words
memory chips and until sales to PC makers took off. The stake rose to 20 per cent but was sold down five years later. The industry clustered around what became the x86 chip family, so it became a common computing standard and its speed, capacity and the relationship between price and performance
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna · 23 May 2016 · 437pp · 113,173 words
few hundred midsize growth cities of 1 to 5 million, like India’s Ahmedabad and Russia’s Sochi—often built around local natural resources or industrial clusters; and thousands of smaller boomtowns few of us could find on a map, such as Hengshan, Leibo, Kuchaman City, Konch, Caxias, Timon, Escobedo and Abasolo
The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and David Ashton · 3 Nov 2010 · 209pp · 80,086 words
); Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone, The Great U-Turn (New York: Basic Books, 1988); Lester Thurow, Head-to-Head (London: Nicholas Brealey, 1993); William Lazonick, “Industry Clusters versus Global Webs: Organizational Capabilities in the American Economy,” Industrial and Corporate Change, 2 (1993): 1–24. 8. Hayes and Abernathy, “Managing Our Way to
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
by Dani Rodrik · 23 Dec 2010 · 356pp · 103,944 words
fear of prosecution. Cities and provinces were given substantial freedoms to fashion their own policies of stimulation and support, which led to the creation of industrial clusters in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and elsewhere.24 Many of the Chinese companies created through government efforts failed. Accounts of industrial policy in China point to
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
by Raghuram Rajan · 26 Feb 2019 · 596pp · 163,682 words
with competition from imports, the establishments close down local operations, and may move machinery to a country where labor is cheaper. Since manufacturers in an industry cluster together, they are likely to decide to lay off workers or close down at similar times, compounding the magnitude and impact of the job losses
Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
by Anu Bradford · 25 Sep 2023 · 898pp · 236,779 words
/annual_report_2021_en.pdf?version=0401. 46.Yang, supra note 43. 47.Geoffrey T. Dancik, The Creation of an Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) Industry Cluster: Dubai’s Internet City, Univ. of Mich. (Dec. 16, 2005), http://websites.umich.edu/~econdev/gd_dubai/index.html. 48.Sam Bridge, Dubai Is Middle
Automation and the Future of Work
by Aaron Benanav · 3 Nov 2020 · 175pp · 45,815 words
occur on any scale at all. Yet even without major advances in automation, “Industry 4.0” and “smart factory” technologies may increase the advantages of industrial clustering in the vicinity of related services, with the result that manufacturing jobs are more likely to be globally concentrated than dispersed.48 By overcoming impediments
The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity
by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt · 18 Oct 2000 · 353pp · 355 words
the new decentralized but interconnected technologies, they could integrate into the mainstream global economy quite quickly. These clusters would not necessarily be limited to apparel industries. Clusters could develop in any area in which a region excels. Africa has always been valued for its natural resources. In fact, the attraction of those
Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 4 Mar 2003 · 196pp · 57,974 words
(and all the Valley’s other drawbacks, such as high house prices, terrible traffic, and unrelenting ugliness), the region still counted as the most dynamic industry cluster in the world. By 2001, Silicon Valley provided jobs for 1.35 million people, roughly three times the figure for 1975, its productivity and income
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
by Erik Baker · 13 Jan 2025 · 362pp · 132,186 words
about to their counterparts.”63 It was precisely this orientation toward entrepreneurial world-changing that seemed to distinguish the engineers of the Boston-area technology industry, clustered around what Business Week famously christened the “Magic Semicircle” of Route 128.64 Doriot’s proteges were not the only denizens of the Magic Semicircle
Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration
by Kent E. Calder · 28 Apr 2019
Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith · 10 Sep 2012 · 598pp · 172,137 words
There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
by Fiona Hill · 4 Oct 2021 · 569pp · 165,510 words
The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters
by Diane Coyle · 21 Feb 2011 · 523pp · 111,615 words
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
by Sven Beckert · 2 Dec 2014 · 1,000pp · 247,974 words
Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing
by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman · 19 Feb 2013 · 407pp · 109,653 words
Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor
by John Kay · 24 May 2004 · 436pp · 76 words
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
by Richard J. Evans · 31 Aug 2016 · 976pp · 329,519 words
Autonomous Driving: How the Driverless Revolution Will Change the World
by Andreas Herrmann, Walter Brenner and Rupert Stadler · 25 Mar 2018
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
by Jeremy Rifkin · 27 Sep 2011 · 443pp · 112,800 words
Austerity Britain: 1945-51
by David Kynaston · 12 May 2008 · 870pp · 259,362 words
Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer
by Duncan J. Watts · 28 Mar 2011 · 327pp · 103,336 words
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey · 17 Jun 2019 · 626pp · 167,836 words
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 4 Apr 2022 · 338pp · 85,566 words
Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order
by Bruno Maçães · 1 Feb 2019 · 281pp · 69,107 words
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Matthew Yglesias · 14 Sep 2020
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
The Connected Company
by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal · 2 Dec 2014 · 372pp · 89,876 words
The Techno-Human Condition
by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel R. Sarewitz · 15 Feb 2011
Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
by Calestous Juma · 27 May 2017
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
by M. Nolan Gray · 20 Jun 2022 · 252pp · 66,183 words
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 12 Nov 2019 · 470pp · 148,730 words
Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
by Joe Karaganis · 3 May 2018 · 334pp · 123,463 words
Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
by Andrew Ross · 25 Oct 2021 · 301pp · 90,276 words
The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing
by Lisa Gansky · 14 Oct 2010 · 215pp · 55,212 words
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
by Duncan J. Watts · 1 Feb 2003 · 379pp · 113,656 words
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
by Paul Collier · 4 Dec 2018 · 310pp · 85,995 words
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
by Richard Florida · 28 Jun 2009 · 325pp · 73,035 words
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
by Tim Harford · 3 Oct 2016 · 349pp · 95,972 words
Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles
by Mohammed Abdul Qadeer · 10 Mar 2016
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
by H. W. Brands · 1 Oct 2012 · 939pp · 274,289 words
Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity
by Currid · 9 Nov 2010 · 332pp · 91,780 words
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
by Derek Thompson · 7 Feb 2017 · 416pp · 108,370 words
The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words
Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy
by Diane Coyle · 14 Jan 2020 · 384pp · 108,414 words
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
by Patrick McGee · 13 May 2025 · 377pp · 138,306 words
The Gated City (Kindle Single)
by Ryan Avent · 30 Aug 2011 · 112pp · 30,160 words
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, From Atoms to Economies
by Cesar Hidalgo · 1 Jun 2015 · 242pp · 68,019 words
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
by Richard Baldwin · 14 Nov 2016 · 606pp · 87,358 words
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley · 10 Jun 2013
The Making of a World City: London 1991 to 2021
by Greg Clark · 31 Dec 2014
The New Geography of Jobs
by Enrico Moretti · 21 May 2012 · 403pp · 87,035 words
Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism Through a Turbulent Century
by Torben Iversen and David Soskice · 5 Feb 2019 · 550pp · 124,073 words
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida · 9 May 2016 · 356pp · 91,157 words
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf · 18 Mar 2008 · 535pp · 158,863 words
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession With Economic Efficiency
by Roger L. Martin · 28 Sep 2020 · 600pp · 72,502 words
The Warhol Economy
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 15 Jan 2020 · 320pp · 90,115 words
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing · 6 May 2008 · 484pp · 131,168 words
Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
by Geoff Colvin · 3 Aug 2015 · 271pp · 77,448 words
God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 31 Mar 2009 · 518pp · 143,914 words