This paper surveys some of the current methodologies employed to analyse cluster
development, as well as some of the key themes emerging from both the analytical and …

This paper surveys some of the current methodologies employed to analyze cluster
development, as well as some of the key themes emerging from both the analytical and …

Innovation—the social process of developing, adapting, and adopting new technologies and
products into the economy and society—is being driven by increasingly intensive use of …

This book offers an integrated, comprehensive assessment of agri-food innovation theories
and their applications. It explores the models, methods and metrics of innovation analysis in …

Clusters have become a key focus of discussion and analysis in contemporary debates on
urban and regional economic development (Feldman, 2000; Porter, 1990; Steiner, 1998) …

Based on the case of the biopharmaceutical industry, the aim of this paper is to challenge
the core conviction now widespread within the “spatial clustering theory”, which devotes a …

A very important stream of theoretical and empirical research has marked the literature on
Territorial Innovation Systems (TIS) over the last twenty years. One key achievement of this …

The promise of biotechnology relies on new science that is increasingly complex and
specialized and depends on sophisticated, global intellectual property rights systems. This …

The goal of cluster development remains an elusive target for many local economic
development agencies. The fascination with industrial clusters arises out of the perceived …

IN THE CLASSICAL MODEL of innovation, relatively small groups of researchers (either in
public laboratories or in private research groups) engage in a mostly selfcontained, linear …