Chapter 1 Introduction: From Specific Industrial Cases to a General Economic Model?

Chapter 2 What Is Complexity?

Chapter 3 Complex Adaptive Systems and Spontaneous Emergence

Chapter 4 The Industrial Cluster as a Complex Adaptive System

Chapter 5 Complexity and Local Interactions: Towards a Theory of Industrial Districts

Chapter 6 From Marshall’s to the Italian “Industrial Districts”. A Brief Critical Reconstruction

Chapter 7 Diversity, Not Specialization: The Ties That Bind the (New) Industrial District

Chapter 8 Competitive and Synergic Behaviours in the Development of Industrial Clusters: Ecological Modelling and Empirical Evidence

Chapter 9 On the Ubiquitous Nature of Agglomeration Economies and Their Diverse Determinants: Some Notes

Chapter 10 The Entrepreneurial Spark: Individual Agents and the Formation of Innovative Clusters

Chapter 11 From Exogenous to Endogenous Local Development: The Cases of the Toulouse and Sophia Antipolis Technopoles

Chapter 12 Biotechnology Development in Germany: The Case of Nordrhein-Westfalen

Chapter 13 Support for Technology-Based Firms: The Role Played by Property-Based Science Parks

Chapter 14 High-Tech Industrial Clusters in the Asian Countries: The Case of the Electronics Industry in the Hsinchu-Taipei Region

Chapter 15 Financial Markets, Industrial Clusters and Small and Medium-Size Enterprises