This paper analyses how the internal resources of small- and medium-sized enterprises determine access (<italic>learning processes</italic>) to technology centres (TCs) or industrial research institutes (<italic>innovation infrastructure</italic>) in traditional low-tech clusters. These interactions basically represent traded...

The cluster literature assumes that technology gatekeepers (TGs) shape a district's learning process and its evolution. However, analysis of the resilience of TGs, and their role across different stages of the cluster life cycle (CLC), is absent. Instead, most of the evidence that has been...

The economic geography literature assumes that large leading firms (technology gatekeepers) (TGs) with high absorptive capacity and high-intensity R&D expenditures, shape the district learning process. However, there is an absence in the literature of a dynamic analysis of the role of the TG....