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From ordinary to innovative: Post‐industrial renewal and innovation clusters in Melbourne

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  • Lee‐Anne Khor
  • Simone Sharpe
  • Gary Magee
  • Lionel Frost
  • Seamus O'Hanlon

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This article examines interrelationships between industrial, urban and social change in a post‐WW2 outer Melbourne industrial district. Using a range of data and disciplinary perspectives, we identify the factors that attracted Bosch Australia and other manufacturing firms to Clayton, now a major innovation district that is home to Monash University. Mapping the development of the Bosch Clayton plant and its links with the broader development of the district, we show how the built and social fabric that evolved to support innovators provides both assets and obstacles to post‐industrial renewal.

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  • Lee‐Anne Khor & Simone Sharpe & Gary Magee & Lionel Frost & Seamus O'Hanlon, 2025. "From ordinary to innovative: Post‐industrial renewal and innovation clusters in Melbourne," Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(3), pages 397-424, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:apechr:v:65:y:2025:i:3:p:397-424
    DOI: 10.1111/aehr.70017
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    1. Alison Bain, 2016. "Suburban creativity and innovation," Chapters, in: Richard Shearmu & Christophe Carrincazeaux & David Doloreux (ed.), Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation, chapter 15, pages 266-276, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Tony Dingle & Seamus O'Hanlon, 2009. "From Manufacturing Zone To Lifestyle Precinct: Economic Restructuring And Social Change In Inner Melbourne, 1971–2001," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 49(1), pages 52-69, March.
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