In recent years the literature on clusters has paid increasing attention to dynamics and two
prominent approaches have emerged: the cluster life cycles (CLC) and regional path …

There is growing agreement in evolutionary economic geography on the necessity for
historical perspectives, to fully understand both the origins and the evolution of clusters …

Much of the literature of clusters focus on the question,'Why do industries cluster?'A general
answer is that industries cluster to gain competitive advantage from external economies and …

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 …

There is increasing recognition that the existence and structure of clusters can only be
understood when studying their dynamics over time (AUDRETSCH and FELDMAN, 1996; …

This chapter's objective consists of evidencing the necessity of connecting smart
specialization with cluster openness and global value chains, in order to integrate …

Most traditional cluster studies follow a static approach (Martin and Sunley, 2003). In fact, the
broad and comprehensive understanding of cluster evolution still constitutes an emerging …

Although clusters life cycles tend to co-evolve with the life cycle of its dominant industry
(Bergman, 2008; Menzel and Fornahl, 2010), the stylized life cycle model does not capture …

In this study, we aim at evaluating the role of path-dependent and past-dependent forces in
the historical trajectory of clusters. For that purpose, we study the life cycles of four of the …

Purpose–This paper aims to examine whether in old industrial regions, the trajectory of
clusters follows that of their corresponding industry or deviates from it and which are the …