In this article, we discuss the current pattern of territorial reconfiguration of the Brazilian industry, its current forms, and motivations in order to problematize some of the most significant challenges of the current regional issue. We have brought new evidence of how it keeps...

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...

Due to the structural low-growth around the globe and the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution, industrial and regional policy see a paradigm shift. Industrial policies shift from ‘picking or backing winners’ to ‘matching winners’. ‘Matching winners’ industrial policy aims to...