Assessing the impact of local government on the innovativeness and durability of domestic appliance industry clusters-A compara.pdf

1、Industry clusters which form as a result of open‘windows of locational opportunity’ have long been the topic of academic research. It is a process whereby the particular features of a region coalesce with a breakthrough

2、innovation and give rise to new industries which often require completely new supporting institutions. But what happens when the window does not open
　　spontaneously，and is instead forced open by government directive

3、s? This paper looks at two different domestic appliance industry clusters，one located in Newton，IA and the other in Qingdao and compares first the causal factors behind the development of each cluster and second，the

4、 evolution of each cluster over time. Today the Newton cluster has all but disappeared while the Qingdao cluster continues to evolve and develop. A major objective of this paper is to explain the different outcome of