… burgeoning organizational literature on institutional … organizations, and that we need a
richer, more relational portrait of individuals and a contextually fuller account of how institutions …

… genesis of most technology clusters can be traced to a few individuals in a region who left
their existing organizations … 2 Institutional environment Clusters do not emerge just anywhere. …

… to result in the emergence of a high-tech industrial milieu. … , deliberate policies aim at
organizing a high-tech complex, but … of innovative industry clustered in high-tech milieux. The …

… We therefore need arguments that attend to both genesis and change … high tech. clearly
there were many possible candidates that might have spawned the creation of a biotech cluster …

… the different institutional contexts from which clusters have … Their analysis rests on three
presumptions: high-tech clusters in … successful clusters there is a degree of self-organization that, …

… (section 2); to present a theoretical framework for the analysis of clusters development (…
‘organizational population’ (for our purposes: a given type of firm) through institutional processes:‘…

… a haven for tourists rather than a beacon for high-tech companies in the 1980s. And Torrey
… Why did very disparate organizations come together to form clusters in these three locales? …

… Development of clusters is a dynamic process shaped by a … the composition of these high-tech
clusters, we attempted to … generating firms/organizations in a regional cluster, we checked …

… The linkages to the United States appear to be related to a far more general … creation of
new technology but also about how we transmitted that knowledge throughout our organization. …

… for the research and development efforts of organizations to leak … ), Cluster genesis: the
emergence of technology clusters and the … , or those with name changes, we include a shortened …