 Economic issues of innovation clusters-based industrial policy: a critical overviewGlobal Business and Economics Review, 2018, vol. 20, issue 3, 286-307 Abstract: Criticisms vis-à-vis cluster policy are numerous, often confusing and really unhelpful; while some authors systematically question the merits, others on the contrary play a genuine role of counsel in his favour. This paper attempts to refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues and implications of the innovation clusters policy. We take a critical view of the literature on clusters, focusing on analysis of the effects of three industrial dynamics in perpetual movement within clusters, i.e. research and development, industrial location and technology cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster 'potentiates', by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these three industrial dynamics in favour of localised firms. It appears from our analysis that these expectations invested in cluster policy must be relativised. So the reasons for the rising power of cluster policies must be sought elsewhere than in a necessarily consensual and tangible evidence of their positive impacts. Keywords: cluster; innovation cluster; competitiveness pole; research and development; industrial location; technology cooperation; localised knowledge spillovers; LKS; epistemic communities; potentiating effect. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:gbusec:v:20:y:2018:i:3:p:286-307 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Global Business and Economics Review from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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