simple presence of clusters in a less developed region does not automatically mean more competitiveness and prosperity. A … accompany clusters formation, as a coherent package including economic, legal, institutional, infrastructure, cultural and socio … viable solutions to the Romania's Eastern regions, lagging behind the Western ones. First, an overall image of the clusters …

increasingly related to high technology and innovation in order to analysis technological districts or clusters. The aim of this … many attempts to identify technological clusters through the application of quantitative methodologies; therefore, the …

The boom of clusters is leading to an 'explosion' of initiatives which in many cases lack an integrated approach. There … characterizing variables to identify and understand clusters at regional level. It has been tested in four Spanish regions with … different economic profiles and a number of clusters, their impact and competitive levels have been analyzed. The methodology …

The present contribution develops on the analysis of clusters in terms of proximities by exploring the issue of distant …

adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting … measures, beyond the outcomes that markets and market players produce on their own. Furthermore, if clusters are so valuable …

In the last two decades the support of clusters has become a useful and frequently used tool for the improvement of … country, and especially regional competitiveness in many countries. Nowadays, clusters are often supported from the public … other countries. The length of clusters support duration is various and usually depends on the conditions of the cluster …

The paper focuses on the analysis of spatial clusters of creative industries in Slovakia using micro-geographic data … datasets resulted in re-discovery of sets of analytic techniques for identification of clusters based on distance metric. These … identifying clusters. In our analysis we analyse 46 434 firms from the INFOSTAT registry (2010), which were geo-coded by their …

the other hand, the creation of modern industrial entities similar to the economic clusters promoted in the European … economies. In this line of argument, the current paper attempts to answer questions such as: to what extent do clusters impact …