Motorsport Valley revisited: Cluster evolution, strategic cluster coupling and resilience

IF 2.8 2区经济学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

European Urban and Regional Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI:10.1177/09697764211016039

N. Henry, Tim Angus, M. Jenkins

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Abstract

Over 20 years ago a series of papers identified a strikingly dominant economic cluster – the UK’s Motorsport Valley (MSV) – which led to MSV becoming an international exemplar of concepts such as agglomeration, clusters and knowledge-driven systems of regional development. Utilising an evolutionary perspective on cluster development, this paper asks ‘whatever happened to MSV?’. Drawing on the framework of strategic cluster coupling, four cluster development episodes are conceptualised that each depict the dynamic evolution of the cluster’s multi-scalar institutional environment, strategic coupling trajectories and economic development outcomes. Reflecting the emerging synthesis between evolutionary economic geography and geographical political economy, the paper describes an extended case study of cluster development, an evolutionary process of strategic cluster coupling and, ultimately, an example of cluster resilience. Through a focus on strategic cluster coupling, the paper provides further understanding of cluster evolution and path development mechanisms at key moments of cluster reconfiguration – and an empirical update and continuation of the economic story and cluster lifecycle of MSV.

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《赛车谷》重访:集群演化、战略集群耦合和弹性

20多年前，一系列论文确定了一个引人注目的主导经济集群——英国赛车谷（MSV）——这使MSV成为集聚、集群和知识驱动的区域发展系统等概念的国际典范。利用集群发展的进化视角，本文提出了“MSV发生了什么？”。基于战略集群耦合的框架，提出了四个集群发展事件的概念，每个事件都描述了集群多尺度制度环境、战略耦合轨迹和经济发展结果的动态演变。为了反映进化经济地理学和地理政治经济学之间正在形成的综合，本文描述了集群发展的扩展案例研究、战略集群耦合的进化过程，并最终描述了集群韧性的一个例子。通过对战略性集群耦合的关注，本文进一步了解了集群重构关键时刻的集群进化和路径发展机制，并对MSV的经济故事和集群生命周期进行了实证更新和延续。

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European Urban and Regional Studies Multiple-

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6.10

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3.20%

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期刊介绍： European Urban and Regional Studies is a highly ranked, peer reviewed international journal. It provides an original contribution to academic and policy debate related to processes of urban and regional development in Europe. It offers a truly European coverage from the Atlantic to the Urals,and from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. Its aims are to explore the ways in which space makes a difference to the social, economic, political and cultural map of Europe; highlight the connections between theoretical analysis and policy development; and place changes in global context.