adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the … competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating … during time, the presence of potential benefits from cluster initiatives is not per se a sufficient foundation or a …

Many governments have established cluster policies to foster innovation and support hightech industries through …

collocation) of entrepreneurial firms in related industries influences cluster growth. Two types of effects are considered that …

temporary monopoly profit (thus providing an incentive to produce that knowledge). Within an R&D cluster, firms co … a club good by all firms in the cluster, it is the major fuel for growth. Within the close upstream and downstream links … the knowledge generated in the cluster is shared and further developed by the firms. This mechanism only works if (i …

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 …