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One of the most convincing explanations papers generally provide concerning clusters in knowledge-based economies … stability. These parameters relate to the type of decision externalities among more or less cognitively distant firms, which … influences the weight and the resulting ambivalent role of knowledge spillovers at the aggregate level of clusters. We suggest …
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....
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Clusters, “industrial” competitive conglomerate, are a real alternative to the economic development of our country …. Known is that, in general, clusters are defined as spatial agglomeration of firms or conglomerate of interconnected …/placement of firms in the formation of clusters, given that any location of a business is by taking into account a series of …
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optimal-policy perspective recommends providing a subsidy to firms of clusters generating externalities, while Porter …’s prescriptions recommend not choosing among clusters. So, we state that cluster policy is involved in a paradox: policy makers use …
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The economic geography literature assumes that large leading firms (technology gatekeepers)(TGs) with high absorptive capacity and high-intensity R&D expenditures, shape the district learning process. However, there is an absence in the literature of a dynamic analysis of the role of the TG....
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We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual … firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves … influence the shapes and sizes of industrial clusters; we confirm these predictions using variations across both technology …
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in divergent development between clusters. This divergent growth has led ot the implementation of regional technology … policies to close the gap. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the growth of high technology clusters in the U.S. …
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The present contribution develops on the analysis of clusters in terms of proximities by exploring the issue of distant …
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The present contribution develops on the analysis of clusters in terms of proximities by exploring the issue of distant …
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In this explorative study, we adopt a knowledge-centred perspective on clusters and investigate whether clusters …? internal structure explains clusters? external (knowledge) collaborative strategies. All in all, the main analytical issue … underlying this paper is the following: do internal characteristics of clusters vary (among them), and do they have any influence …
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