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If localization economies are present, firms within denser industry concentrations should exhibit higher levels of …
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. Furthermore, it aims to present a normative model for networking knowledge clusters, that is, traditional clusters that are … emergent clusters that include Bioscience, Biotechnology, Multimedia, Tourism, Health, and Knowledge. In this paper, the basic … framework about clusters was expanded, taking as reference the studies of Porter (1985, 1990, 1998, 2005), Feldman (1994 …
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For a few years now, the concept of transnational entrepreneurship (TE) has gained in importance in social sciences. It focuses on individuals having migrated from one country to another, thereby maintaining business-related linkages with their home countries. These transnational entrepre-neurs...
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Garment industry worldwide is undergoing significant restructuring since the final phaseout of the Multi‐fibre Arrangement. The changes are taking place in terms of relocating production sites on the one hand and coping with the new competition on the other. In this context the paper tries to...
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limitations of this work. From this foundation it is proposed in this paper that a framework which understands clusters as nodes …
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Geographical clusters are in the focus of a large breadth of literature and have been discovered as a preferred policy … tool by policymakers around the world. The vast literature suggests differing explanations for the advantages clusters …
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Cluster policy has become a method of choice for economic policymakers in many nations and regions in both industrialized and developing countries. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the policy is being perceived by politicians and practitioners as a way to anchor economic activity in locations...
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The idea of smart specialisation has gained high prominence in the discourse about EU regional policy. In the coming program period from 2014 to 2020 it is expected to be a major pillar of EU structural funds. The notion of smart specialisation incorporates some basic principles of evolutionary...
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cross-evaluation of urban clusters which are formulated within wider study areas, such as administrative regions. To this …. The definition of urban clusters is mainly based on different types of variables, such as the demographic characteristics …. Such a measurement improves the definition and analysis of urban clusters and at the same time, constitutes an alternative …
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This study uses a sample of 71 countries and nonparametric quantile and partial regressions to model a number of threatened species (reptiles, mammals, fish, birds, trees, plants) in relation to various economic and environmental variables (GDPc, CO¬2 emissions, agricultural production, energy...
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