Notwithstanding the wide research on clusters and industrial districts, most of the preceding
contributions tried to analyse and investigate past research and rarely tried to critique or …

The industrial district and cluster literature has generated an extraordinary quantity of
articles, debates and topics for discussion, and encompasses one of the most vibrant lines of …

The past two decades have witnessed an ever-growing scholarly interest in regional
clusters. The focus of research has mainly been on exploring why clusters exist and what …

For more than two decades, cluster theory has served as a basis for widespread
implementation of regional development policies in several countries. However, there are …

Industrial districts and clusters have long been known for their positive contribution to local
development. In recent years, inspired by successful examples such as the Silicon Valley …

Executive summary During the last decades EU has shifted political focus to innovation, the
knowledge economy and sustainable competitiveness. Cluster based strategies have …

Interest in clusters among academics and policy-makers has grown significantly, particularly
over the past decade, with cluster promotion becoming almost axiomatic to most local and …

In the last decade there has been an increased interest in the cluster approach as a tool for
boosting regional competitiveness. In this article practices and processes of regional cluster …

The purpose of this article is to review cluster research and its evolution by considering the
works of the most prominent researchers in the field over an extended period of time using a …

Clusters influence the way firms cooperate, organize and compete, but clusters and their
related benefits rarely come spontaneously in a straight line of expansion. It is argued that …