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Titre The quest for sustainable attractiveness: Notes on the emergence of research/innovation clusters
Auteur William Kennedy, Robert Delargy
Mir@bel Revue Journal of Innovation Economics
Numéro no 11, 2013 Innovations in microfinance and the financial context
Page 205-230
Résumé anglais Much technological innovation occurs within clusters, to the extent that the creation and enhancement of technological clusters are widely believed to warrant public support. However, an examination of the origins of technological clusters, going back to the late nineteenth century, suggests that efficient and effective public support is difficult to achieve directly: the emergence of the most successful clusters, including Silicon Valley, has owed little to public planning and resources and much to chance and circumstance, while in contrast many conscious public efforts in the U.S. and elsewhere have achieved disappointing results. The paper concludes with a survey of the kinds of public-policy support - generally indirect and focused on the science base - most likely to succeed. JEL Codes: O31, R11, N70, O38, O51-52, H23
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