Regions are increasingly becoming a main engine of globalization and are playing a more and more important role in economic development policies. As a consequence, regional authorities must be very attentive to the competitiveness of their region. In a first part of the paper, some main economic...

Over the last ten years, we assisted to the emergence of cluster policies across the world. As clusters are spatial agglomerations of co-located industries and services, the regional dimension plays a prominent role in the fine tuning of new industrial policies implemented by the European...

All countries have now, to different degrees, implemented cluster policies. As clusters are spatial agglomerations of co-located industries and services, the regional dimension is a main component in the fine tuning of policies implemented. Given that the cluster policy is considered as one of...