Rethinking Clusters: Towards a New Research Agenda for Cluster Research

This book discusses the main research topics in cluster research and highlights emerging lines of research for the future. It draws on the debate started with the rethinking clusters workshops and covers topics such as territorial roots of radical innovation processes, place in economic development, path renewal, internationalization, and entrepreneurship.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 206 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Research on clusters and industrial districts has been extensive, but most of it has focused on understanding the past rather than trying to map out the future. This book aims to fill this gap by identifying and discussing the main research topics that populate the current scientific debate and highlighting the emergent lines of research that will constitute the future research agenda. It does so by drawing on the debate started with the rethinking clusters workshops, which have quickly become a rich place for discussion among cluster scholars around the world.

Rethinking Clusters: Towards a New Research Agenda for Cluster Research collects contributions from authoritative colleagues who cover a number of relevant and timely issues, such as the territorial roots of radical innovation processes, new ways of understanding and measuring the role of place in economic development, path renewal, internationalization, and entrepreneurship. The final section is devoted to the critical analysis of policies that support smart specialization.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal European Planning Studies.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367672034