Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Guest editorial -- Competitive advantage and industrial district -- Spatial agglomeration and specialization in emerging markets -- Emergence of a digital cluster in east London: birth of a new hybrid firm -- The impact of actors, networks and institutions in...

Research on agglomeration finds that either a higher survival rate of incumbent firms or a higher founding rate of new entrants, or both, can sustain an industry cluster. The conditioning effects of time on the two distinct mechanisms of survival and founding are, however, rarely examined. We...