This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting
point comes from the economics of innovation and technological change. This tradition …

This paper outlines the development of an entrepreneurial culture in the US Capitol region
and the formation of a regional industrial cluster. The conditions that the literature associates …

Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at
regional level and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow and others decline …

Literature on methods for analysing interindustry interdependence and geographical
concentration of firms began to multiply since the 1990s. The aim of this paper was to …

This paper contributes to the literatures on entrepreneurship and economic geography by
investigating the effects of clusters on the survival and performance of new entrepreneurial …

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as Silicon Valley in the United States, have become an important subject of scholarly inquiry in …

Complementing existing approaches on national innovation systems (NISs) and regional
innovation systems (RISs), the proposed spatial innovation systems (SISs) approach …

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 …

This survey links the prevalent theory from the entrepreneurship literature concerning
opportunity recognition and exploitation to economic theory, in particular the model of the …

Using a network perspective of multinational firms, this article develops conceptions of
global cluster networks and global city-region networks that are based on foreign direct …