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

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

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

This paper assesses convergence in output per head across regions in the European Community (EC), for the period 1975 …<196>90. We use three alternative methodologies to measure convergence, which yield consistent results. We observe that there are … strong differences in the pattern of convergence across sub-periods and across subsets of regions. If Southern Europe seemed …

This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory … predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The … shown that, although this effect did slow down convergence, its magnitude was too small to account for the discrepancy …

This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level … capita on regional economic growth – but not on convergence – which also generates considerable spillover effects. However …

This paper looks at the factors driving regional growth in Mexico, paying special attention to the potentially growth … formation of adequate social conditions for innovation (the social filter), and spillovers for 31 Mexican states and the Mexico …