Firms aspire to take advantage of technical and business networks through inter-organizational interactions to improve …

institutions. This paper argues that clusters and networks are two separate concepts that both merit attention, especially … clusters of related firms, industries and institutions, with a view to the presumably positive effects of clustering for … network settings. A second point is that in some cases, clustering yields a governance advantage over networks. Taking into …

performance. However, the findings do not support the current policy fashion of encouraging regional networks revolving around …