Regional Development in Knowledge Economy

This book examines the concept of regionaldevelopment through industrial clustering and the automotive cluster inThailand emerged in 1990s as a case study to understand therelationships and factors influencing coopetition (cooperation and competition)between universities and companies in Thailand's automotivecluster. In addition this work proposes applicable models andways to improve the dynamics of government universities nationalresearch institutions and firms in order to enhance highskills knowledge innovation and competitiveness of the automotivecluster and industry. Based on the ideas of the knowledge economy and atriple helix model of relationships amonggovernment-industry-university this study uses multiple data collection methods including questionnaires and in-depth interviews withdescriptive analysis to investigate the relationship among governmentuniversity and industry.