. Local peer effects appear as important in explaining local clusters of entrepreneurs, and imply a local feedback-effect in …

of regional innovation systems in the landscape of evolutionary economic geography. It argues that the current emphasis … a renewed regional innovation systems approach, the article presents a policy intervention framework for constructing …

This Paper studies the size and number of industrial clusters that will arise in a multi-country world in which … welfare maximum, showing that the equilibrium will generally have clusters that are too small, while there are possibly too … too small clusters. …

significant are modest and geographically very limited. The gains from clusters are also quite well internalized by firms in their …

Clusters are considered an adequate tool for development by governments and international organizations. Existing … clusters in Asia, we highlight significant industrial differences in the relative importance of the cluster soft and hard …

forefront of the current debate in cluster studies, the discussion has not yet permeated the research on cultural clusters. The …

, innovation etc.). However, little is known about the capacity of firms in clusters to resist economic shocks. In this paper, we …Clusters have already been extensively shown to favor firm-level economic performance (productivity, exports … analyze whether firms that agglomerate in clusters and firms that have been selected to benefit from the "competitiveness …