The geography of innovation describes the importance of proximity and location to innovative activity. As part of what … sufficiently so that the discussion can be organized around certain stylized and commonly accepted facts: • Innovation is spatially … concentrated. • Geography provides a platform to organize economic activity. • All places are not equal: urbanization, localization …

cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster "potentiates", by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these …Criticisms vis-à-vis cluster policy are numerous, often confusing and really unhelpful; while some authors … refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues, impacts and implications of the innovation clusters policy. To do this …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …