Innovation within clusters is a significant aspect in regional development. The role of socialcapital and absorptive capacity in leveraging both exploratory and exploitive innovationhas widely been emphasized in economic geography and regional studies. Social interaction,in fact, affects the...

Наиболее серьезной проблемой в настоящее время может быть признано отсутствие/недостаток эффективных и учитывающих специфику российских условий методических...

In this paper we discuss the new generation of German innovation clusters as a model that reflects the paradigm of a supervising and even entrepreneurial role of government. The model evolves alongside a predominant programmatic design that postulates strategy driven clusters or virtual regional...

After an abundant literature on the crucial role of cluster development for innovation and growth in knowledge-based economies, cluster policies have been recently and increasingly called into question in the aftermath of several empirical evidences. Our aim is to show that, in spite of this...

Cluster studies have shown that innovation can be understood as the result of an inter- organizational process, where a division of labor with regard to exploration and exploitation exists among the actors inside the cluster. A cluster is ambidextrous if it manages to balance innovative...