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 …

, 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 …

This paper analyzes empirically a public policy promoting industrial clusters in France. Cluster policies have become …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …