Explaining Regional Departures from National Patterns of Industry Specialization: Regional Institutions, Policies and State Coordination
研究了德国德累斯顿和澳大利亚阿德莱德两个地区的信息通信技术产业，发现区域制度和政策差异导致其发展偏离国家模式，德累斯顿因制度厚实且协调而更成功。
The aim of the paper is to identify the basis of regional competence in industry sectors that are not key performers at the national level. The paper examines the ICT sector in two regions: Dresden (Germany) and Adelaide (Australia). The performance of Australia and Germany in ICT is not high by OECD standards. However, both Dresden and Adelaide have some competence in parts of the ICT sector that departs from national patterns. In Dresden the development of the ICT sector is more advanced than in Adelaide. In both regions, there are distinctive institutional features and policies that explain the development of the ICT sector. Further, in Dresden, the state has coordinated the ICT sector within the regional space, giving focus to institutional strengths in research and training, such that it is possible to describe the institutional environment as ‘thick and coherent’. As such, the regional space of Dresden has experienced an agglomeration of ICT and can be regarded as more successful than Adelaide, where institutions and state initiatives are fragmented and incoherent.