This article examines the role of regional clusters in regional entrepreneurship. We focus on the distinct influences of convergence and agglomeration on growth in the number of start-up firms as well as in employment in these new firms in a given region-industry. While reversion to the mean and...

The depth of the Great Recession and the current COVID-19 crisis have increased the interest in the economic resilience of regions. This paper evaluates the role of clusters in the resilience of regional industry employment to economic downturns. Regions specialized in particular clusters...

We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than output per current worker,...