Clusters and Regional Economic Development Geographic Concentration of SMES as a Source of Competitive Advantages

Nenad Pandurevic

Ekonomika, Journal for Economic Theory and Practice and Social Issues, 2012, vol. 58, issue 2

Abstract: Balanced regional development, support to small and medium enterprises, stimulation of innovation and generally raising competitiveness of economy are in very focus of policy-makers of economic development in the contemporary world. Clusters as in broadest sense, geographic concentration of interconnected companies and supporting institutions its popularity in last couple decades thanks mostly the fact that by single approach they provide possibilities for realization of objectives these as well as other policies of economic development. However, it is possible to say that results achieved by cluster-based policies do not correspond to proclaimed expectation as well as cluster potential. Even there are many reasons for that, definitely it is caused by insufficient understandings theoretical foundation of cluster concept, as well as preconditions, experiences and implication of practical application of cluster-based polices, too. This article is actually about it.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/288776/files/2-2012%20pages%20159-169.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:sereko:288776

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.288776

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Ekonomika, Journal for Economic Theory and Practice and Social Issues from Society of Economists Ekonomika, Nis, Serbia
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().