"This volume offers a diverse discussion on the interrelations among AI, algorithms, big data, and Industry 4.0 to understand the importance of these paradigms for the development of firms, districts, clusters, cities, regions, and innovation.This book was originally published as a special issue...

Creative industries are highly concentrated forming clusters. One of the main problems for the identification of clusters of creative industries in Europe is the lack of data, constrained in practice to regions (NUTS 2) and influenced by the heterogeneity in the definition of NUTS across...

The aim of the present research is to participate to the recently resurged debate on cluster life cycle theory among scholars of New Evolutionary Geography and Industrial Economics, starting from the seminal contributions of Menzel and Fornhal (2010). Authors pointed out how the very cluster...