Adopting a knowledge-based perspective, this study develops a framework of how Italian
industrial districts (IDs) operate and evolve as cognitive systems. First, we analyse the …

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

Open innovation has become a popular approach, especially since 2003, as people began
purposively managing, evolving and harnessing knowledge flows across organizational …

For more than two decades, theories on regional clusters have inspired economic and
structural policies at the European, national and regional levels. Based on the assumption …

Open innovation is a concept, whose attributes can be perceived as naturally
complementing the proximity-based offer of clusters. The purpose of this paper is to …

Purpose–Cooperative relationships between actors located in the same geographical area
that are economically independent and culturally distinct are the heart of functioning …

Despite the vast literature on knowledge management, little research has addressed the
specificities of knowledge integration at the cluster level. Moreover, the literature on clusters …

Research on clusters or industrial districts within various schools of thought focuses on the
relationships between clustered firms. We observed that the territory can produce sources of …

This paper analyses the relationship between increased competition and cluster resources–
that is, horizontal cooperation, supporting organizations, and knowledge transfer–during the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to look at various dimensions of entrepreneurship and
the empirical models that try to explain the relationship between entrepreneurship and …