This paper focuses on the Ink Jet Printing (IJP) industry in the vicinity of Cambridge, UK, and explores the emergence and maturation of a knowledge-based cluster of activity. The discussion is organised in terms of the origins and progeny of the firms in the cluster and their business...

Abstract :The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the spatial pattern of fast-growing young firms in the Netherlands.First, the research sample of high-growth firms is described.Each of the 3,688 independent firms in the sample was between 5 and 11 years old and had generated at...

Entrepreneurship is a fundamental driver of economic evolution. It is also a distinctly spatially uneven process, and thus an important explanation of the uneven economic development of regions and nations. Not surprisingly, entrepreneurship is a key element of evolutionary economics (Schumpeter...