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This article presents an agent-based modelof Prato, an Italian textile district where thousands ofsma1l firms specialise into tiny phases of the whole production process. It is an empirical model atscale 1: 1 that reconstructs the information flows between economic actors and connects them...
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The biotech cluster in San Diego is dominated by small firms, with approximately 73% of the firms employing between 1 … public offerings. In spite of the aggregate increase in the number of firms and employees in the biotech cluster, there is a …
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networks between universities and OEMs in Southern Ontario on innovation and cluster policy …
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This study examines how different contextual, structural, and functioning characteristics of clusters influence cluster … and estimate the impact of the variables on cluster performance using PLS structural equation modelling. Our results show … that important determinants of cluster performance are, among others, long-term planning security and procedural trust …
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The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing decisions in firms characterized by thick industrial relations, that is where unions and employees are involved in, and are sometimes able to affect, the relative managerial...
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This paper is about the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship at the regional level. Defining entrepreneurship as the creation of new organisations and clusters as a geographically proximate group of interconnected firms and associated institutions in related industries, this paper aims to...
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This study examines the impact of trust on the use of knowledge transfer mechanisms of cluster firms by deriving …-to-face knowledge transfer mechanisms in cluster relationships. Based on the relational view of governance, it is argued that trust may … influence the choice of knowledge transfer mechanisms of the cluster companies in the following way: First, if trust reduces …
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the European Union (24%) work in a cluster-like environment characterized by close cooperation with other local businesses … creating an innovation cluster out of nothings, all nations are working to promote clusters and to make them more innovative …. The search is for identifying a cluster that already exist but not passed the market test as hot spot though potential …
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linear functional of the value of an innovation-industrial cluster for a region. Decomposition for this purpose of two … innovation and industrial cluster for the region, which linearly depends on two functions - the functions of the cluster … innovative potential exceeds the function of innovative development of the cluster. This means that the company which is core of …
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