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Cluster strategies have turned to be one of the main strategies implemented by public policies for the development of national economies all around the world. The aim of this article is to shed light on the French implementation of these strategies, the « poles of competitiveness ». The...
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Draft chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vols. 5A and 5B This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. They then discuss how...
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical regularities....
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If it is largely assumed that space matters for innovation, theoretical understanding and measures of agglomeration remain a source of debates. This article proposes a review of the geography of innovation approaches through the balance between individual interactions and their context (between...
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We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough …
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In the contemporary globalising knowledge-based economies, local clusters have become crucial elements of regional … raising importance of the theoretical debate on clusters, there is a substantial lack of empirical support of its precise … magnitude and evolution. Moreover, the majority of literature surveys on clusters are exclusively qualitative-based. Aiming at …
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. Furthermore, it aims to present a normative model for networking knowledge clusters, that is, traditional clusters that are … emergent clusters that include Bioscience, Biotechnology, Multimedia, Tourism, Health, and Knowledge. In this paper, the basic … framework about clusters was expanded, taking as reference the studies of Porter (1985, 1990, 1998, 2005), Feldman (1994 …
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Although the literature on the evolution of industrial clusters is not vast, a preferred approach has already become … research agenda into the evolution of clusters. …
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We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual … firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves … influence the shapes and sizes of industrial clusters; we con.rm these predictions using variations across patent technology …
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