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

competing on innovation in the global value chain; special attention is paid to clustered SMEs. By comparing 4 clusters in …This paper is concerned with unpacking the role of clusters in supporting the move from competing on low-costs to … contributes to current discussion on upgrading in clusters in developing countries by a) providing an explanation on how localized …

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 …

Most of the studies about industrial clusters and innovation stress the importance of firms’ geographical proximity and … process of learning and innovation in clusters. This paper contributes to this latter direction of research. It applies social … their embeddedness in local business networks, as factors that positively affect their learning and innovation processes …

competing on innovation in the global value chain; special attention is paid to clustered SMEs. By comparing 4 clusters in …This paper is concerned with unpacking the role of clusters in supporting the move from competing on low-costs to … contributes to current discussion on upgrading in clusters in developing countries by a) providing an explanation on how localized …

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

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 …

approach in the research fields of innovation studies and economic geography. Secondly, to propose a broadened interpretation …, regions and time periods and for analytically integrating the cognitive, organizational and spatial dimensions of innovation … knowledge base approach in empirical innovation studies, regardless of industrial, geographical or temporal context. The paper …

firms located in agglomerations or industrial clusters. This paper investigates the extent to which innovative firms in …

Using Norwegian Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data linked to public employment registers covering the years 2004 … - 2010, this paper investigates the relationship between employment growth prior to the event of innovation, innovation … process innovations, and reveal interdependencies between multi-faceted organizational capabilities, innovation output and …