Cluster Economic Performance Concept – Present Experiences and Future Developments
Abstract
Cluster-based economic development has become an increasingly popular topic for
researchers and economic development professionals.
Clusters are groups of companies and institutions co-located in a specific geographic
region and linked by interdependencies in providing a related group of products and/or
services. Given changes in the global environment, businesses and countries are
changing the way they compete. These changes are characterised by the ability of multinational
corporations to locate their investment – production plants, R&D facilities,
service centres, etc., – in any location in the world where they find an adequate business
environment.
The increasing interest in clusters is only one aspect of a broader re-orientation of
research and economic policy towards the microeconomic foundations of prosperity and
growth.
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