-intensive pipelines between firms in different regions or clusters. In doing so, it offers a novel way of understanding how interfirm … characteristics ascribed to permanent spatial clusters, albeit in a temporary and intensified form. These short-lived hotspots of … intense knowledge exchange, network building and idea generation can thus be seen as temporary clusters. The present paper …

In the contemporary globalising knowledge-based economies, local clusters have become crucial elements of regional … raising importance of the theoretical debate on clusters, there is a substantial lack of empirical support of its precise … magnitude and evolution. Moreover, the majority of literature surveys on clusters are exclusively qualitative-based. Aiming at …