This paper provides a critical examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in all or most activities is favoured by certain common characteristics in the local `milieu`, involving a cluster of many small firms benefiting from flexible inter-firm alliances, supported by mutual...

With the aid of a geographical information system, our paper constructs a three stage least squares simultaneous equation model to investigate the interrelationships between the interregional flows of human capital, and the innovation dynamism of a region. In order to do this, we model the...

The semiconductor industry is examined in order to explain the different types of institutional frameworks underlying the various notions of industrial cluster and to investigate possible relationships between clustering and innovative regional development. Following a general discussion of the...