The present study analyzes the nexus among business growth, ownership structure, and
local embeddedness—that is, the involvement of economic actors in a geographically bound …

A number of possible advantages of industry agglomeration—or spatial clustering—have
been identified in the research literature, notably those related to shared costs for …

Co-located firms within related industries enhance the ability to create knowledge by
variation and a deepened division of labour. The interdependent development between …

Definition of Clusters. Chapter 3, by Anders Malmberg and Dominic Power, deals with
problems that result from different definitions of clusters, that is, focusing either on a regional …

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

Marshall (1916/1890), Weber (1929/1909), Hoover (1948), Chinitz (1961) and others
testifies.'Classical agglomeration theory'evolved in response to three empirical obser …

Current regional industrialization strategies encourage recruitment, small business
development, and business retention and expansion efforts to promote industry cluster …

'In the era of globalization, governance has become multi-level, from supra-national bodies
down to local organizations. This important book suggests that to promote cluster …

Page 1 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMICS て Mario A. Maggioni Clustering Dynamics and the
Location of High-Tech-Firms Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH Page 2 Clustering …

The multiple clustering of economic activities is one of the most distinctive characteristics of
a polycentric metropolitan area. The relationship between intra-metropolitan location …