Verdoorn's Law implies that the process of growth is a cumulative one with the "manufacturing advanced" economies growing at the expense of their "less-advanced" counterparts. This paper tests a range of conventional and spatial specifications of Verdoorn's Law across the Greek regions. The...

This paper assesses the relationships between public policy and the development of industrial clusters. A conceptual model of the relationship between public policies and the development of industrial clusters is developed and tested using data from 43 European industrial clusters. The results...

McDonald F., Huang Q., Tsagdis D. and Tuselmann H. J. (2007) Is there evidence to support Porter-type cluster policies?, Regional Studies 41, 39-49. The paper examines the views, often associated with Porter, that clusters with deep collaborative networks and established local supply chains have...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of innovation on the export behavior of firms. Design/methodology/approach: Using two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey merged with register data on firm-level, the authors estimate the influence of the innovation output and...

The PhD dissertation aims to investigate/measure 'innovative behaviors' of firms by comparing clustered versus non-clustered firms along various stages of (standardized) cluster life cycle in ICT sector within various Nordic countries/regions. In order to be able so, the theoretical platform is...

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 and 2012. On the one hand, we distinguish...