Conceptualizing cluster evolution: beyond the life cycle model?
Conceptualizing cluster evolution: beyond the life cycle model?
Although the literature on the evolution of industrial clusters is not vast, a preferred approach has already become evident based around the idea of a cluster ‘life cycle’. This approach has several limitations. This paper explores a different conception of cluster evolution, drawing on the ‘adaptive cycle’ model that has been developed in evolutionary ecology. Using this model, cluster evolution is viewed as an adaptive process with different possible outcomes based on episodic interactions of nested systems. Though not without limitations, this approach offers greater scope as a framework for shaping the research agenda into the evolution of clusters.
clusters, evolution, life cycle model, complex systems, adaptive cycle model
1299-1318
Martin, Ron
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Sunley, Peter
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November 2011
Martin, Ron
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Sunley, Peter
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Martin, Ron and Sunley, Peter
(2011)
Conceptualizing cluster evolution: beyond the life cycle model?
[in special issue: Cluster Life Cycles]
Regional Studies, 45 (10), .
(doi:10.1080/00343404.2011.622263).
Abstract
Although the literature on the evolution of industrial clusters is not vast, a preferred approach has already become evident based around the idea of a cluster ‘life cycle’. This approach has several limitations. This paper explores a different conception of cluster evolution, drawing on the ‘adaptive cycle’ model that has been developed in evolutionary ecology. Using this model, cluster evolution is viewed as an adaptive process with different possible outcomes based on episodic interactions of nested systems. Though not without limitations, this approach offers greater scope as a framework for shaping the research agenda into the evolution of clusters.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 24 November 2011
Published date: November 2011
Keywords:
clusters, evolution, life cycle model, complex systems, adaptive cycle model
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Geography & Environment
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/206487
ISSN: 0034-3404
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