The purpose of our analysis is to explain the segmentation of the information and communication sector, based on a selection of the largest global corporations that research, develop, produce and distribute information technology for the delivery of information services. This multi-industry...

The Strategies for Smart Specialisation platform exhibits an extensive policy framework that aims at stirring regional development and economic growth through integrated efforts of public administration agencies, business leaders and university establishments. Essential elements of the platform...

The performance of clusters has been linked in several studies to their historical and geographical contexts as well as to the drivers that shape the competitive strength of nations. Among these drivers, the human factor and universities play a key role in the competitiveness of nations, as well...

This paper offers a synthesis of a new analytical procedure based on the complementary use of a large number of methods and techniques for categorization of objects, pattern recognition and for structural analysis. It represents an example of a functional clustering [1] and an extension to the...

What is missing in the literature on industrial clusters is the quantitative and empirical statement of the network structure of industrial cluster. In order to further the research of the structure of cooperative and coordinated relations among all kinds of organizations in cluster, the paper...