East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities …, the program was meant to trigger the regional development in East Germany. While existing studies examine whether the … development of networks or cluster was successful, this paper focuses on the investigation of regional economic development. Using …

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … processes require the expansion of cluster concepts towards virtual dimensions. It will be shown that the combination of local … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

's biotech firms. Analysing the demographic process of cluster emergence we show that there exist different types of biotech … analysis of these cross-cluster links may provide important insights of how learning and innovation works in China's health … are taken into consideration. -- China ; health biotechnology ; cluster ; entrepreneurship ; localization …