Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting … competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …

This paper provides a critical examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in all or most activities is … hypotheses about the geography of innovation. Moreover, examination of new survey evidence from a large number of firms in the … innovation is very much more limited than has been suggested, as are the supposed advantages of firm smallness …