Clusters and cluster policy have become a dominant paradigm in the world of both economic development theory and … various forms of intervention. Yet despite the large amount of writing on clusters, there is substantial vagueness and … ambiguity about the concept itself as well as how clusters work to bring about economic growth and whether policies put in place …

article reflects on post- and pre-2000 development from the perspective of the evolution of regional clusters of knowledge …-based activity. Four case studies of knowledge clusters are presented—Silicon Valley (United States), Cambridge (United Kingdom …), Ottawa (Canada), and Helsinki (Finland)—as a means of understanding how the modus operandi of such clusters is evolving …

economic development. Concurrently, regional economic development strategies have emphasized targeting economic clusters. This … university in North Carolina that were undertaken with two different regional economic clusters. …