-food clusters. Refering to Hayek's concept of pretence of knowledge and empirical evidence of cluster facilitation policies of other … countries the success of the Kazakhstani cluster initiative is questioned. … Cluster-Initiative in Kasachstan in Frage gestellt. …

development of networks or cluster was successful, this paper focuses on the investigation of regional economic development. Using …

depth face-to-face interviews in clusters across two continents to examine the drivers of a cluster's innovativeness along … the industry lifecycle. The results from our interviews suggest that the impact of key drivers of cluster innovativeness … change depending on the stage of a cluster's underlying industry lifecycle. Classifying clusters as either being adolescent …

capital stock. After classifying the 17 Spanish regions into high and low unemployment groups using kernel and cluster …

Criticisms vis-à-vis cluster policy are numerous, often confusing and really unhelpful; while some authors … cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster "potentiates", by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these … expectations invested in cluster policy must be reconsidered and relativised. So the reasons for the rising power of cluster …

actors. In 2008 the German ministry for education and research (BMBF) started the Leading-Edge Cluster competition … 2011 with cluster actors (firms and public research) who received government funding. Our results indicate that the program … was quite effective in initiating new cooperations between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. The vast …

why they are necessary in creating a dynamic cluster of regional growth. In doing so, we try to link agglomeration … advantages of the new economic geography with competitive advantages of Porter's cluster theory. But we also go beyond these …

This paper challenges the uselfullness of the cluster-based development strategy to diversify and increase the … Austrian Market Process Theory. It is argued that already the theoretical foundations of the cluster concept suffer from severe … cluster development program in Kazakhstan's agro-food sectors shows that cluster facilitation in practice turned out to be …