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Contents:1. The Starting PointUwe Blien and Gunther Maier2. InnovationDynamics and the Structure and Evolution of Industrial ClustersSimonaIammarino and Philip McCann3. First Steps towards a Critical Appraisal ofClustersAndre Torre4. A Network Based Approach Towards IndustryClusteringJuan C. Duque and Sergio J. Rey5. Industry-specific SpatialAgglomerations in GermanyThomas Brenner6. Sectoral Concentration, BusinessNetworks and Innovative Competences in East Germany - An Empirical Approachto Identify Economic ClustersMartin T.W. Rosenfeld, Peter Franz and GerhardHeimpold7. Clusters and the Spatial Structure of Wages in Rio Grande do Sul(Brazil): A Multilevel ApproachLeonardo Monteiro Monasterio8. MeasuringSpecialisation and Concentration in Regional Clusters - An Empirical Analysisfor Eastern BavariaJoachim Moller and Nicole Litzel9. Inter-Firm Relationsand Economic Clustering in the Dutch Randstad RegionFrank G. van Oort,Martijn J. Burger and Otto Raspe10. The Contribution of New and Young Firmsto the Economic Development of Clusters in Germany: Comparative Analysis of aGrowing, a Mature and a Declining ClusterAnne Otto and Stefan Kohler11. OnBuilding Clusters versus Leveraging Synergies in the Design of InnovationPolicy for Developing EconomiesEdward Feser12. Geographic Concentration ofSectors in the German Economy: Some Unpleasant Macroeconomic Evidence forRegional Cluster PolicyBjorn Alecke, Christoph Alsleben, Frank Scharr andGerhard Untiedt13. Clusters and Networks: Their Spell Has By No Means BeenBroken!Martin Wrobel14. Cluster Approaches to Local Economic Development:Conceptual Remarks and Case Studies from Lower Saxony, Germany Matthias Kiese