The academic interest in innovation clusters and networks has given rise to a vast stream of
works in recent years. Besides defining the notions of clusters and innovation clusters or …

The academic interest in innovation clusters and networks has given rise to a vast stream of
works in recent years. Besides defining the notions of clusters and innovation clusters or …

1.1 Clusters and Innovation: The Main Conceptual Traditions During the past decade or so,
the geography of economic activities and the analysis of clusters have resurged as key …

This paper aims to reveal the role played by open innovation schemes in the development of
new competitive advantages. Furthermore, it aims to present a normative model for …

How can we dare to produce 'just another'special issue and set of papers dealing with topics
that have already been debated so extensively in recent years: knowledge networks …

Innovation clusters have been the key concept underlying economic development theory
and practice since the concept was re-energized in the 1990s. Worldwide efforts promoting …

The concept of innovation systems has come to dominate the discourse on technological
innovation over the last two decades of research. This book is devoted to pushing at the …

This paper provides a critical review of the literature on innovative clusters in biotechnology.
It examines the main contributions on this subject, trying to identify some robust stylised …

In the contemporary globalising knowledge-based economies, local clusters have become
crucial elements of regional development, assuming a significant role in both academic and …

Clusters may be defined as non-random (Ellison and Glaeser, 1994) geographical
agglomeration of firms with similar or closely complementary capabilities (Richardson …