The academic interest in innovation clusters and networks has given rise to a vast stream of works in recent years …. Besides defining the notions of clusters and innovation clusters or networks, a core topic within the literature relates to … various conceptual and analytical key issues, especially as regarding the spatial/geographical boundaries of an innovation …

In order to explain why innovation activities are increasingly structuring through networking and agglomeration … become the key competitive tools within a context of sustained innovation dynamics and rapid globalization, notably in high …