The empirical sub-sections of this article have shown that the both production and technology oriented clusters are a very diverse and regionally embedded phenomenon. Within this context, the observed diversity of political strategies and support measures whose ultimate goal is to 'generate...

The aim of this article was to investigate how far clusters in knowledge-intensive service industries have developed and what kind of agglomeration advantages they generate. Therefore the first step was to analyse which knowledge-intensive service industries exhibit spatial concentration. Based...

Unternehmen, die in Clustern angesiedelt sind, profitieren von statischen und dynamischen Agglomerationsvorteilen. Diese externen Effekte werden durch verschiedene Wirkungsmechanismen generiert. Es ist zu erwarten, dass Cluster Unterschiede in der Art und in der Ausprägung der jeweiligen...

Our study of the regional dimension of China's innovation system has in essence yielded five main findings. Firstly, contrary to what general wisdom may suggest at first sight, the regional concen-tration of R&D activities in China could not be found to be particularly stark. While they are...