Global temporary networks of clusters: structures and dynamics of trade fairs in Asian economies
研究了亚洲经济体贸易展会作为临时集群的结构与动态，发现发达经济体的展会参与者更多样、更利于知识创造，且展会结构受所在经济体组织特征影响；七场旗舰电子展揭示了全球高端学习过程的临时集群网络架构。
Acting as temporary clusters, trade fairs can turn into trans-local learning spaces in global industrial communities. However, up to now, how temporary gatherings are related to regional/national economies has not yet been systematically investigated. This article approaches the question with an international comparative study of trade fairs in Asian economies. Generally, consistent with a dynamic interpretation of temporary clusters, trade fairs exhibit a more diverse configuration of participants, being a setting more compatible for knowledge creation, in more developed Asian economies. However, structures of trade fairs are also influenced by organizational features of embedded economies. Further, seven flagship electronics fairs suggest an architecture of global temporary networks of clusters for high-end learning processes in the global knowledge economy.