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...

Clusters are geographic concentrations of industries related by knowledge, skills, inputs, demand, and/or other linkages. A growing body of empirical literature has shown the positive impact of clusters on regional and industry performance, including job creation, patenting, and new business...

This paper 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...