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Regional cluster policy : key features and critical issues
Pessoa, Argentino - 2012
Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the emergence of new ones. In fact, not only as a...
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On the spatial scale of industrial agglomerations
Mori, Tomoya; Smith, Tony E. - 2015
Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within … each industry. But such measures often fail to distinguish spatial scales of agglomeration. In a previous paper, Mori and … agglomeration based on an explicit method for detecting spatial clusters. The first, designated as the global extent of industrial …
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Cities and spatial interactions in West Africa : a clustering analysis of the local interactions of urban agglomerations
Curiel, Rafael Prieto; Heinrigs, Philipp; Heo, Inhoi - 2017
Over the past 60 years, urbanisation and cities have fundamentally transformed the social, economic and political geography of West Africa. The number of people living in cities increased from 5 million in 1950 to 133 million in 2010. During the same period, the number of towns and cities with...
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Heterogeneous agglomeration
Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo; Strange, William C. - 2014
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Functional polycentrism in Portugal : an evaluation
Nunes, Goretti; Mota, Isabel; Campos, Pedro - 2011
This paper aims at develop an evaluation of the functional polycentrism of Portuguese municipalities. For that purpose, we develop a critical assessment of the concept of polycentrism and functional polycentrism whose assumptions guide most of the policies of regional planning, and present the...
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Zooming in : a practical manual for identifying geographic clusters
Alcácer, Juan; Zhao, Minyuan - In: Strategic management journal 37 (2016) 1, pp. 10-21
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Tech clusters
Kerr, William R.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2019
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Sinking or swimming in the cluster labor pool? : a firm-specific analysis of the effect of specialized labour
Grashof, Nils - 2020
Human resources are a key factor for firm success, particularly nowadays when most industrial economies face an increasing shortage of qualified labour. With their pooled labour markets, regional clusters have been shown to be a preferable location for firms in order to satisfy their demand for...
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Agglomeration, clusters, and industrial policy
Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry G. - In: Oxford review of economic policy 29 (2013) 2, pp. 383-404
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