The idea of the business cluster as an agglomeration of related production activities has a
long history, yet remains pertinent today, albeit in an evolved form and context. Evolution …

Clusters have become the sine qua non for economic developers around the world. In some
places they have emerged out of the ashes of discredited network programs to rise again in …

This book deals with the phenomenon of clusters which have been an important topic of the
industrial economy since the 1990s. As early as at the end of the nineteenth century, Alfred …

Entrepreneurs play a special role in cluster formation. Entrepreneurs start firms that
capitalize on technological opportunities, adapting scientific breakthroughs and generic …

Australia has had unfortunate experience in industrial cluster development, and despite
widespread government action remains below OECD averages in terms of cluster …

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 …

Following the publication of The Competitive Advantage of Nations in which Michael Porter
(1990) illustrated the link between industrial clusters and economic success,'clustering'has …

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 …

Every culture and civilization has creation stories or myths about how the society started and
took shape. These stories help define identity and order a chaotic, complex universe …

This paper analyses the dynamics of clustered enterprise development in developing
countries. It is focused on the different types of clusters that can be identified in these …