The tendency for innovative industry to clusterspatially has been documented by scholarship; yet, questions are still raisedabout the role of government policy in cluster formation andsustainability. The authors focus on the emergence of the U.S. Capitolregion as an important biotech cluster in...

This paper outlines the development of an entrepreneurial culture in the US Capitol region and the formation of a regional industrial cluster. The conditions that the literature associates with entrepreneurship lag rather than lead the development of the cluster. Supportive social capital,...

Using detailed data on Canadian biotechnology firms during the 1990s, we explore the geographic scope of knowledge spillovers and the balance spillover-seeking and expropriation-avoidance in entrants locations. Our findings indicate that knowledge spillovers are highly localized, with entrants...