? ? ? ? Table of Contents 1 Introduction: Objective and Scope of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Sector and Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2. 1 Sector and Territory. Crossed Competencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2. 2 Variety of "Models" of Territorial Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2. 2. 1 The Factors of Spatial Competency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2. 2. 2 Agglomeration, Specialization, Specification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2. 3 From Territorial Governance to Global Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2. 3. 1 The Concept of Territorial Governance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2. 3. 2 Governance Structure relations with Local Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2. 3. 3 Local Governance Between Macro and Micro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2. 4 Relations Sector-Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3 The Aeronautical Sector: Recent Tendencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3. 1 The Organizational Model in the Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3. 1. 1 Defense and the Aeronautical Sector as Public Goods. . . . . . . . . . . 24 3. 1. 2 Forms of Ownership and Regulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 25 3. 1. 3 Organization of the Aeronautical Sector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3. 1. 4 The Aeronautical Industry and Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3. 1. 5 Product Design, Comparative Advantages and Reliability. . . . . 28 3. 1. 6 Aeronautical Firm and Production Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3. 1. 7 From Production Costs to Transaction Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3. 1. 8 Knowledge Flow in the Sector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3. 1. 9 The Organizational Model and its Consequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3. 2 New Concept of the Product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3. 2. 1 Cascade Organization of Subcontracting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 3. 2. 3 Subcontracting Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3. 3 EADS: Its Increasing Importance in the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3. 3. 1 Structure in the Global Aeronautical Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The book covers both the analysis of the major producer of civil aircraft (EADS/Airbus) located in the region and its relation with the cluster of enterprises within those regions. We studied the organization of production, the creation of knowledge within the industry, the concentration and competition among the two global producers, the overall financial situation of the sector, the specialization and specification of the different territories. The book also analyzes the basic theoretical aspects needed to understand the origin and evolution of the European aerospace sector from the first dreamers to the beginning of this century. To end, the book shows a descriptive and inference statistical analysis of each territory.

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"Professor Dr. Javier Alfonso Gil arbeitet an der Univers dad Autónoma de Madrid und seine Heimat ist eine jener Regionen, die ein Projektteam aus Mitarbeitern von fünf Instituten und Universitäten im Rahmen eines auf drei Jahre angelegten Forschungsprojekts unter die Lupe genommen haben. Im Mittelpunkt des Interesses stand dabei die Analyse der Aktivitäten von EADS und Airbus ?" (in: Aero International, 2007, Issue 11, S. 68)