Clusters
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By 2030, HSBC projects, those
clusters
will account for about 80% of the country’s GDP.
China should also work to foster even faster growth in urban
clusters
that are already successful.
The real challenge China faces is to take advantage of dynamic urban
clusters
like the GBA not only to generate growth, but also to address structural challenges like inequality and excess capacity in financially and environmentally sustainable ways.
China can support innovation in many ways, including by developing research-and-development
clusters
and helping inventors reap rewards through stronger intellectual property protection and reforms to the process of bringing firms to market.
When a girl holds a book up to an insurgent’s gun in Pakistan, when teenage mothers exiled from South Sudan in neighboring Uganda make education for their children their top priority, and when lights seen from space might include
clusters
of children huddled by candlelight trying to read and study, we know that education’s moment has come.
The southern city of Shenzhen is already known as the “Silicon Valley of Hardware,” and the greater Shenzhen-Hong Kong area is ranked second in terms of global inventive
clusters
(measured by patents).
The financial sector has a natural tendency to form clusters, and London – where English is spoken, the legal system is efficient, labor markets are flexible, and the regulatory regime is relatively streamlined – offered substantial advantages.
Similar manufacturing
clusters
are sprouting up everywhere in China.
For example, the Swedish two-county trial was randomized by
clusters
of population groups, and the comparability between the women in the screened and control groups was not confirmed.
But all are meant to ensure the country’s position near the productivity frontier, and within key international economic
clusters.
The PRD is the southern pillar of the three Chinese coastal growth
clusters.
Taken together, these three
clusters
account for 21% of China’s population and just under 40% of its GDP.
Chinese policymakers certainly recognize the value of city
clusters
to advance economic development and ease the pressures of rapid urbanization.
In this context, city
clusters
could be essential to innovation and job creation, particularly in the service sector, while limiting resource wastage, avoiding further environmental degradation, and easing urban congestion from overcrowding.
Already, stock-connect schemes involving Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and London are being established to support Chinese city clusters’ ability to meet OBOR-driven demand for offshore financing.
While many observers focus on China’s credit glut, the authorities are quietly fostering the development of dynamic city
clusters.
And US multinationals still locate about 84% of their R&D activities in the US, often in innovation
clusters
around research universities.
The New Normal in China’s CitiesHONG KONG – For decades, rapid urbanization in China created
clusters
of knowledge, manufacturing, and distribution in areas that benefited from well-established connections to the global economy.
Indeed, across Europe and in Asia other nations have either started, or are considering offering state subsidies to encourage the growth of their own high tech
clusters.
After observing Silicon Valley during my many years at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, however, I am convinced that dynamic industrial
clusters
require a flexible economic environment, not government industrial policy.
Although good universities may be necessary to develop these industrial clusters, they are not sufficient.
Silicon Valley's labor market flexibility indicates that nations that want to encourage high tech
clusters
should make it easy to hire and lay off workers rather than mandate substantial severance pay, or legislate limits on working hours.
Where dynamic industrial
clusters
locate is partly due to luck and accident.
These
clusters
will, I believe, be more agile and more able to act than one overarching structure.
Computer technologies have created prosperous new businesses (even business clusters) while making certain manufacturing workers redundant and sending older manufacturing cities into decline.
It could move into even more sophisticated areas with additional investment in education and further development of industry
clusters
such as Dolina Lotnicza (Aviation Valley) in southeastern Poland.
Clusters
enable governments with limited budgets to make the most of their assets by concentrating investments in one place.
At the same time, policymakers should ensure that
clusters
tap into regional production networks.
But the practical process of building stronger innovation
clusters
is not one size fits all.
Today, armies of economists are researching issues such as what explains the location of technology
clusters
like Silicon Valley, why the Industrial Revolution happened when it did, or why some organizations are much more productive and innovative than others.
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