Agglomerationen technologieintensiver Aktivitäten prägen nicht nur hochentwickelte Industriestaaten, sondern wachsen auch in Newly Industrialized Countries. Doch stellt sich angesichts ihrer anderen Bedingungen der technologiebasierten Industrialisierung die Frage: Inwieweit können sie...

This paper examines regional effects of the InnoRegio program, which was conducted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional...

As many establishments are embedded in regional economic structures, their competitive advantages also depend on local conditions. In many regions, these are shaped by regional clusters. Hence, for more than two decades, clusters have attracted a great deal of attention from regional economics...