. Foreign firms are not more prone to carry out product innovation, except for subsidiaries in clusters. …

Innovation policies in both old and new industrial countries increasingly promote regional clusters and distributed …

of local knowledge networks. After a presentation of the network-based rationales of growth and structuring of clusters … level of structural homophily) of regional knowledge networks are suited properties for studying how clusters succeed in …

. This cluster’s experience is investigated on how its thickly homophilous networks have steered it from dominance to decline … clusters dependent upon informal knowledge exchanges. Hence, we provide evidence that social embeddedness is not as detrimental … rural traditional technology clusters intensively involving community social capital; such clusters being ubiquitous in …

clusters development and internationalization. Having considered the clusters’ role and characteristics, in order to determine …, providing recommendations for appropriate measures in order to greater benefit from the clusters’ potential and the …

This paper is concerned with unpacking the role of clusters in supporting the move from competing on low-costs to … competing on innovation in the global value chain; special attention is paid to clustered SMEs. By comparing 4 clusters in … contributes to current discussion on upgrading in clusters in developing countries by a) providing an explanation on how localized …