From here, from there, and from beyond: endogenous and exogenous factors triggering change along the cluster life cycle in a multi-scalar environment

Dominik Santner and Dirk Fornahl ()
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Dominik Santner: Centre for Regional and Innovation Economics, University of Bremen

No 2014-02, Working Papers on Innovation and Space from Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography

Abstract: While explaining cluster internal impacts on cluster development, cluster life cycle theory fails to explain the influence of cluster external factors. Based on a multiscalar approach, this study investigates factors causing change within an agritech cluster applying a qualitative approach. Main shifts in cluster development and their inducing factors from multiple scalar and thematic contexts are investigated. Concluding, incremental changes are mainly induced by knowledge dynamics within the same industry, especially from the local level. Radical change is the result of an exogenous shock from the national institutional environment. In total, specific changes are induced by specific factors from specific scales.

Keywords: endogenous factors; exogenous factors; cluster development; multiscalarity; cluster life cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L64 O31 O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2014-07-14
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