Maritime clusters have spawned considerable scholarly work in recent years owing to their
crucial effect on regional economic development and global shipping resource allocation …

Even though many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) realize the importance of
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for their sustainable business development …

O tema da geografia da inovação vem ganhando crescente importância no debate nos
últimos anos. O principal pressuposto da análise da geografia da inovação é que a …

The clustering of firms in related fields has a positive impact on economic performance and
innovative behaviour. The cluster lifecycle model provides a framework in order to add a …

This paper investigates the impact of public policies aimed to foster entrepreneurship on the
national entrepreneurial culture of a country. While most of the existing studies focus on the …

We analyse one of the most important policy experiences for industrial clustering in
Southern China—the Specialised Towns programme—that has transformed some Chinese …

Since the mid-1990s German technology policy has experienced a paradigmatic shift from
standard grant schemes towards a region-oriented and competition-based R&D policy …

In recent decades, numerous cluster associations with public and/or private support have
been established to facilitate clusters. These cluster associations have launched a number …

The strategy of the institutionalization and development of business agglomerations, in any
of its analytical aspects (industrial district, local production system, cluster, etc.), has not had …

In view of the undisputed promising effects of regional clusters and spurred by lighthouse
examples such as Silicon Valley, cluster policies have been popular in many countries …