This paper reviews the literature, concepts, and operationalizations of the concept of
entrepreneurial ecosystems. Despite some interest at the national level, entrepreneurship is …

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 …

This paper argues that the contribution of some universities to local and regional economic
dynamism is much richer than overly mechanistic depictions suggest. Beyond generating …

International and local policymakers have repeatedly encouraged the development of
clusters—a dense geographic concentration of interconnected businesses—to boost …

The evolutionary approach to economics hypothesizes that economies change in path-
dependent ways, shaped and constrained by past decisions, chance events and accidents …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it aims at reconciling the literature on
creating shared value (CSV) with the one on cluster development, searching for …

Interest in information and communication technology (ICT) clusters has long been
sustained by the power of emerging technologies to reinvent regional or local economies …

Despite their immense popularity and rapid proliferation and development, local cluster
policies have met mixed results, and often suffer from limited effectiveness. In this paper, we …

How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than
others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination …

This paper reports the results of a 5-year study of eight information and communication
technology clusters across Canada. It summarizes the key findings from the individual cases …