Prepared as part of a research project titled " The Importance of Clusters to Urban and Regional Prosperity in a Globalised Economy " , coordinated by L'institute ABSTRACT Since the 1980s, the emergence of clusters of firms and industrial districts has inspired a large amount of literature on the subject. Most of the research has focused on analysing how these agglomerations of firms embedded i...

This paper is concerned with the effects of space on interorganisational relationships. Much of the economic geography literature has been concerned with studying spatial agglomerations (e.g. industrial districts, clusters) whilst neglecting to characterise in detail the types of relationships that make up such agglomerations. By contrast, research in interorganisational relationships has stres...

The developmental analysis of industrial clusters of small firms is particularly interested in replicating the famous successful stories of Italian industrial districts elsewhere in the world. This paper analyses the different views about the sources of successful clustering and the ways these views influence the developmental policy framework. Through the analysis of the districts of the Third...

The Iranian Environment Protection Agency (IEPA) in collaboration with Iranian Industries Organization (IIO) need to design a relevant database for the industries information based on the initial screening of Iranian Evaluator Team (IET) in certain clusters. However, we aware of this fact that all industrial projects should go through the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) after and along wi...

This section provides an overview of the San Diego Association of Government's methodology for defining and analyzing industrial clusters.

FORMS AND ROLE OF THE CLUSTER INITIATIVES IN FOSTERING INNOVATION IN POST-INDUSTRIAL REGIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CLUSTERS IN BRITISH WEST MIDLANDS AND SPANISH BASQUE COUNTRY The objective of this research is to present cluster initiative approaches in post industrial regions characterized by similar economic history and challenges, with additional emphasis on their role in pro...

The purpose of this paper is to explore conceptually the role of clusters for the economic recovery of old industrial regions. We will identify three types of clusterbased renewal, distinguishing between an innovation-oriented adjustment of mature clusters (incremental change), the emergence of new agglomerations in established industries (diversification) and the rise of knowledge intensive an...