This paper examines empirically if ``Kangnam & Seocho cluster`` can be named as an industrial district. For this purpose, it derived five dimensions of industrial district; localization, networking, embeddedness and institutional thickness, collective...
This paper examines empirically if ``Kangnam & Seocho cluster`` can be named as an industrial district. For this purpose, it derived five dimensions of industrial district; localization, networking, embeddedness and institutional thickness, collective learning, and innovative synergy. For empirical study on S/W clusters in Seoul, it built an analytical framework. Then, it analyzed micro data gathered from questionaire survey. As an industrial district, ``Kangnam & Seocho area`` has shown highly developed characteristics in such dimensions as ``embeddedness and institutional thickness``, ``collective learning``, and slightly in ``localization``, compared with other cluster. However, it has no differences in ``networking`` dimension, and has turned out to be less developed in ``innovative synergy`` dimension.