L UBLINSKI A. E. (2003) Does geographic proximity matter? Evidence from clustered and non-clustered aeronautic firms in Germany, Reg. Studies 37 , 453-467. This paper analyses what types of inter-firm linkages are stronger between geographically proximate firms compared to distant firms. It...

We show that allelomimesis is a generic mechanism that could explain why the cluster-size distribution D(s) of diverse social aggregates such as animal groups and socio-economic entities all fit into a power-law distribution: D(s)∝s−τ, where τ is the critical exponent. Roughly,...