depth face-to-face interviews in clusters across two continents to examine the drivers of a cluster's innovativeness along … the industry lifecycle. The results from our interviews suggest that the impact of key drivers of cluster innovativeness … change depending on the stage of a cluster's underlying industry lifecycle. Classifying clusters as either being adolescent …

why they are necessary in creating a dynamic cluster of regional growth. In doing so, we try to link agglomeration … advantages of the new economic geography with competitive advantages of Porter's cluster theory. But we also go beyond these …

the presence of innovative firms. Therefore it is hardly surprising that fostering innovation activities has become one of … the main topics on the political agenda. In most cases innovation policy is, implicitly or explicitly, associated with … action concerning innovation policy and demonstrates the conflicting goals resulting from the different angles policies are …

Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities … development of networks or cluster was successful, this paper focuses on the investigation of regional economic development. Using …

related to cluster development, to formation and implementation of cluster programs. The major initiative on this way was the … Federation. In total, there were submitted 94 cluster projects. In the first stage the projects were evaluated by the wide group … Group for the Development of Public-Private Partnership in the Innovation Sphere?. Among the 37 clusters 5 submitted in the …

The relationships between different types of cooperation and rivalry and product innovation are examined in this … rivalry and product innovation is stronger for established companies than for new ones. The results obtained, using a sample …

The article evaluates the impact of clusters on innovation outputs in the regions of the Czech Republic. The research … clusters the main declared field specialisation, membership basis and cluster age were established. In the second phase, 5 most … important branches were defined per each region by number of employees. Subsequently, the hypotheses that innovation …

management (e.g. resource-based view) and the economic geography literature (e.g. cluster approach), variables from three … from revealing that being located in a cluster indeed increases on average firm innovativeness, one of the central findings … is that firms benefit unequally within the cluster environment depending on the specific firm-level, cluster …

investigated. So, from an inter-organizational network perspective, this study aims to deepen knowledge about inter-cluster … inter-clustering, and (3) size of the inter-cluster network and future expectations. Moreover, we extend the existing …