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Journal of Knowledge Management | 2010

Knowledge clusters and knowledge hubs: designing epistemic landscapes for development

Hans-Dieter Evers; Solvay Gerke; Thomas Menkhoff

With globalization and knowledge-based production, firms may cooperate on a global scale, outsource parts of their administrative or productive units and negate location altogether. The extremely low transaction costs of data, information and knowledge seem to invalidate the theory of agglomeration and the spatial clustering of firms, going back to the classical work by Alfred Weber and Alfred Marshall, who emphasized the microeconomic benefits of industrial collocation. This paper will argue against this view and show why the growth of knowledge societies will rather increase than decrease the relevance of location by creating knowledge clusters and knowledge hubs, due to sharing of tacit knowledge and research and development outputs. Designing epistemic landscapes of knowledge clusters and hubs is, therefore, proposed as a viable development policy.


Archive | 2012

Managing Knowledge for the Development of the Mekong Delta.

Solvay Gerke; Hans-Dieter Evers; Tatjana Bauer; Judith Ehlert

The Mekong Delta in Vietnam is one of the most productive areas in terms of rice cultivation and aquaculture in the world. Ambitious water resources management and flood control have largely contributed to this success. Nevertheless, agricultural intensification and diversification have generated new ecological and socio-economic challenges in the region. Vietnam’s science and technology policy, described in this chapter, emphasises research on the water sector, focusing on the delta’s sustainable and integrated water resources management. Several research institutes have been established and numerous research programmes, partly in cooperation with foreign organisations, have been initiated. The emergence of knowledge clusters of water-related research in these regions is the result of Vietnam’s science policy, in which Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta are playing decisive roles. Clustering has a positive effect not only on the increase of knowledge output, but also on the economic growth of these regions. Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho City are knowledge hubs with favourable conditions and a large pool of skilled people and advanced infrastructures. This chapter will analyse to what extent proximity and clustering have led to inter-organisational networking and knowledge sharing in academia. It will be shown that limited knowledge sharing has greatly reduced the effectiveness of water-related knowledge production and knowledge output in the south of Vietnam. This finding is mirrored at the local level, where the access of rural communities to water-related innovations and technologies will be examined and alternative local knowledge strategies of managing livelihood insecurities investigated. The current transformation process of agricultural modernisation – as heavily enforced in the Mekong Delta – will aggravate livelihood insecurities in the future. Water-related knowledge needs thus to be produced and disseminated more effectively to the targeted communities. Further, the importance of local knowledge has to be taken into account for a coherent strategy to develop a knowledge-based economy.


Archive | 1999

Globale Märkte und symbolischer Konsum

Hans-Dieter Evers; Solvay Gerke

Die Expansion des kapitalistischen Weltmarkts hat viele Handelsbarrieren beseitigt, und die Idee der kapitalistischen Marktwirtschaft ist als leitendes Prinzip gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Organisation weltweit etabliert. Globalisierung ist das Ergebnis konkurrierender Marktkrafte (Evers 1997). In diesem Aufsatz konzentrieren wir uns auf die kulturelle Dimension der Marktexpansion. Markte werden demnach als kulturelle Systeme betrachtet, die wiederum als Konstruktionen von Modernitat interpretiert werden. Modernitat beschreibt daher eine spezifische Bedeutung, die machtige Akteure globaler Machtzentren den Markten zuschreiben. Liberale Marktwirtschaft ist per se modern, fortschrittlich, zukunftsweisend und dazu angelegt, dem in der amerikanischen Verfassung verankerten Streben nach Gluck die grosten Chancen einzuraumen. Die Macht der Sprache im allgemeinen und die der neo-klassischen Wirtschaftstheorie im besonderen fungiert als delegierte Macht; sie ist, nach Bourdieu, eine „authorisierte Sprache“ (Bourdieu 1991). Das wird besonders durch die Beschaftigung mit Wirtschaftspolitik deutlich. Marktexpansion wird als der einzig richtige Weg zu wirtschaftlichem I Wachstum und sozialem Wohlstand gesehen. Wir bezeichnen diese Position als Marktfundamentalismus. Wir stellen die These auf, das einerseits der Weltmarkt kulturell in Form einer „Romantik der Marktexpansion“ und das andererseits die Postmoderne kulturell und gesellschaftlich dutch globale weltmarktorientierte Produktion und Massenkonsum konstruiert werden (Evers/Gerke 1997). Diese seltsame Verschrankung von Romantik und Konsum findet auch, wie wir zeigen werden, im Lebensstil der neuen asiatischen Mittelklassen ihren Niederschlag.


Archive | 2004

Closing the Digital Divide: Southeast Asia's Path towards a Knowledge Society

Hans-Dieter Evers; Solvay Gerke


Archive | 2006

The strategic importance of the Straits of Malacca for world trade and regional development

Hans-Dieter Evers; Solvay Gerke


MPRA Paper | 2007

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Market Expansion

Hans-Dieter Evers; Solvay Gerke


Archive | 2002

Chinese entrepreneurship and Asian business networks

Thomas Menkhoff; Solvay Gerke


Archive | 2005

Knowledge is power: Experts as a strategic group

Hans-Dieter Evers; Solvay Gerke


Archive | 2008

Strategic Group Analysis

Hans-Dieter Evers; Solvay Gerke


MPRA Paper | 2011

Looking East, Looking West: Penang as a Knowledge Hub

Solvay Gerke; Hans-Dieter Evers

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Hans-Dieter Evers

National University of Malaysia

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Singapore Management University

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