| Danksagung | 4 |
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| Table of contents | 6 |
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| List of figures | 9 |
| List of tables | 10 |
| Introduction | 12 |
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| 1 The cluster-oriented regional information system CORIS | 18 |
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| 1.1 The origins of CORIS | 18 |
| 1.2 Project implementation | 19 |
| 1.3 Cluster identification in Eastern Bavaria | 25 |
| 1.4 Project extension Eastern Bavaria: Donaustädte | 37 |
| 1.5 Cluster identification in the Nuremberg region | 42 |
| Appendix Chapter 1: Cluster criteria in Eastern Bavaria | 52 |
| 2 Industrial clusters and economic integration – theoretic concepts and an application to the European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg | 58 |
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| Abstract | 58 |
| 2.1 Introduction | 59 |
| 2.2 Economic integration, agglomeration and clustering | 60 |
| 2.3 The analysis of industrial clusters | 75 |
| 2.4 Clusters in a European Metropolitan Region: the case of Nuremberg | 82 |
| 2.5 Résumé and perspectives | 93 |
| 3 Who with whom – co-operation activities in a cluster region | 94 |
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| Abstract | 94 |
| 3.1 Introduction | 95 |
| 3.2 Determinants of co-operation | 96 |
| 3.3 Cluster identification in the Nuremberg region | 102 |
| 3.4 Methods | 110 |
| 3.5 Results | 112 |
| 3.6 Conclusions | 120 |
| Appendix Chapter 3 | 122 |
| 4 Does participation in clusters enhance firms’ survival and growth? An establishment-level analysis using CORIS data | 128 |
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| Abstract | 128 |
| 4.1 Introduction | 128 |
| 4.2 Review of literature on clusters and their effect on firm survival and growth | 131 |
| 4.3 Building the database | 135 |
| 4.4 Covariates and hypotheses | 140 |
| 4.5 Survival analysis | 144 |
| 4.6 Analysis of growth rates | 148 |
| 4.7 Conclusions | 151 |
| Appendix Chapter 4 | 153 |
| Summary and conclusions | 156 |
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| Bibliography | 160 |
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| Abstract | 181 |
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| Kurzfassung | 182 |
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