investment in energy efficiency in the Onitsha plastic cluster, South-East, Nigeria. Self-administered questionnaires were … Onitsha Plastic Cluster. This paper presents a foremost attempt at analysing the determinants of energy investment in a … cluster in Nigeria. …

-food clusters. Refering to Hayek's concept of pretence of knowledge and empirical evidence of cluster facilitation policies of other … countries the success of the Kazakhstani cluster initiative is questioned. … Cluster-Initiative in Kasachstan in Frage gestellt. …

`s „industrial cluster model“ is used as the relevant analytical framework to deal with the complex intercourses of the different … between the medical device industry cluster, innovations and the German health care system. It is showed which impact … „innovation“, „cluster“ and „medical device industry“. In chapter 2 the German medical device industry is examined on its …

-food clusters. Refering to Hayek's concept of pretence of knowledge and empirical evidence of cluster facilitation policies of other … countries the success of the Kazakhstani cluster initiative is questioned. … Cluster-Initiative in Kasachstan in Frage gestellt. …

actors. In 2008 the German ministry for education and research (BMBF) started the Leading-Edge Cluster competition … 2011 with cluster actors (firms and public research) who received government funding. Our results indicate that the program … was quite effective in initiating new cooperations between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. The vast …

why they are necessary in creating a dynamic cluster of regional growth. In doing so, we try to link agglomeration … advantages of the new economic geography with competitive advantages of Porter's cluster theory. But we also go beyond these …

This paper challenges the uselfullness of the cluster-based development strategy to diversify and increase the … Austrian Market Process Theory. It is argued that already the theoretical foundations of the cluster concept suffer from severe … cluster development program in Kazakhstan's agro-food sectors shows that cluster facilitation in practice turned out to be …