geographically clustered business activities, in order to stimulate regional innovation. Underlying the relation between clusters and … collaborate intensively, many regional clusters are mere co-locations of firms. To enhance our understanding of why some clusters …

geographically clustered business activities, in order to stimulate regional innovation. Underlying the relation between clusters and … collaborate intensively, many regional clusters are mere co-locations of firms. To enhance our understanding of why some clusters …

Innovation and entrepreneurship are key factors in current regional development initiatives, derived from the concepts …, but will also turn regional economic divergence back on the national economic development agenda. The purpose of this … perspective. The impacts of innovation (measured by innovation scoreboard data) and entrepreneurship (GEM data etc.) on regional …

a spatial phenomenon and its understanding without a local/regional dimension is incomplete. …

regional policy see a paradigm shift. Industrial policies shift from ‘picking or backing winners’ to ‘matching winners … matching winners in the region.At the same time the regional policy shifts from ‘the spatially blind regional policy’ to ‘the … place-based regional policy’. And the placebased regional policy is the rationale behind the ‘smart specialization’ driven …