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innovation programmes and also in many national and regional strategic documents of member states. The cluster development … cluster initiatives for starting cluster-based policies are mostly public sector driven. The public sector has in the past … infrastructure on which clusters can grow. The Czech Republic adopted the comprehensive approach to cluster-based policies which are …
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the period 2004-2006 opened a huge national-wide clustering movement. Several tens of cluster initiatives have been … reviews and summarizes developments of cluster policies in the Czech Republic at both national and regional levels and …
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This paper examines how the concept of industrial district, widely recognised as an Italian construct, took shape. It assesses to what extent the concept was tailored to fit the peculiar trait of the Italian economic development, as is claimed by some international authors, and to what extent it...
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cluster in Cluj county, created as a complex SWOT analysis based on of relevant local, regional and national databases and … official studies. The primary data were correlated focusing on the multifactorial role of associative form, which cluster is … revealed the importance of a cluster on the field, but, in the same time, exposed the difficulties that is has to confront in …
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The location quotient is an easy to use and often used indicator for identifying the clustering of industries, even though it struggles with some problems. This paper assembles different kinds of enhancements of the coefficient taken from the literature, which offer improvements regarding both...
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successful clustering is the development of entrepreneurship, and the expected result (i.e. the purpose of cluster initiatives …) is the growth in cluster's competitiveness. In this paper a number of economic-statistical models were constructed using … to cause a reduction in the competitiveness of the cluster. Obtained models permit to assert that social capital is the …
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Cluster initiatives can be classified as government & international organization's interventions in economic processes … authors deem that the main focus of cluster initiatives should be the employment's effectiveness, that implies an increase in …
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Nations and regions find themselves in a constant competition for attracting direct foreign investments, the most important producers, specialized work force, the best researchers etc. From this point of view the former communist countries could be in an unfavorably situation because they just...
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According to the basic law of supply and demand, as the cost of energy input rises, ceteris paribus, producer prefers to employ smaller quantity of energy input and substitute cheaper inputs for more expensive energy during the production process (Schurr, 1982; Jorgenson, 1984). Hence, the question...
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Cluster policy has gained remarkable prominence in regional and sectoral structural policy in industrialized countries … cluster potentials on the local and regional levels. But is this instrument applicable in development policy, too? In this …
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