We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and … localization on different types of innovation. However, once we include firm fixed effects and distinguish between manufacturing … employment density. For the service sector, in contrast, we find adverse effects of localization on different kinds of innovation …

cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster "potentiates", by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these …Criticisms vis-à-vis cluster policy are numerous, often confusing and really unhelpful; while some authors … refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues, impacts and implications of the innovation clusters policy. To do this …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …

management (e.g. resource-based view) and the economic geography literature (e.g. cluster approach), variables from three … from revealing that being located in a cluster indeed increases on average firm innovativeness, one of the central findings … is that firms benefit unequally within the cluster environment depending on the specific firm-level, cluster …

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation …

For more than two decades cluster policies have emerged as a central focus for decision-makers trying to instigate … is no surprise that several regions are trying to implement their development strategies based on a broad Sea Cluster … performed for the Atlantic Area under project KIMERAA, this paper evaluates the consolidation of the Sea Cluster in the Algarve …

taken measures to stimulate the creation and strengthening of clusters. However, the progressive extension of cluster … sectorial boundaries to highlight the dynamic and complex nature of the relationships established between actors in the cluster … assessment of the potential impact of cluster development and the effectiveness of measures aimed to their promotion. Based on …