Beschreibung

"A successful cluster relies on a strong local human capital base and on a high level of inter-firm job mobility as a mean for knowledge transfer. However, the large body of cluster studies gives little evidence on the development of such local labour market pools. Thus, the question is how this central element of clusters emerges. While in the cluster emergence stage, the demand for human capital is relatively modest, in the growth stage firms in the cluster rely strongly on an extensive human capital base. Besides this quantitative aspect, the competencies demanded in the two stages probably also differ with a demand for quite specialised ones in the emergence stage and a much wider range in the growth stage.<br> The remainder of this chapter is structured as follows. The next section gives a brief review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the interaction between industrial clusters and human capital (mobility). Section 3 depicts the applied criteria for the identification of emerging and growing media clusters and describes the database of our analysis. Then, the assumptions on the patterns of job mobility within clusters are introduced and we test them by our empirical analysis (section 4). In the last section the outcomes of the comparative analysis are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))