Industrial policy is mainly sector based in France, moulding industrial specialization and often promoting “grand projects.” It intended to make use of economies of scale, specifically in technologically sophisticated sectors and has been labelled as High Tech Colbertism. The European unification and the Single Market Programme has to some extent converted European industrial policy to the hori...

This paper describes how patterns of industrial clustering arise with respect to the size of an initial firm whenmeasured in terms of innovation. Through principles of evolutionary economics, the aim of this paper is to examine the ’birth’ of industrial clusters. We take an endogenous and supply-side approach, where firms in a region spawn from incumbents. Technology is qualitatively described ...

Although the concept of industry agglomeration were put forward quite early (Young, 1928; North, 1981), research on this industrial production phenomenon began to be prosperous these days with the emerging of modern industrial park or center or cluster such as Silicon Valley in America. Both academicians and practitioners recon that the definition, identification and application of the cluster ...

The analysis of changes in water quality in a monitoring network system is important because the sources of pollution vary in time and space. This study utilized analysis of the water quality index calculation, hierarchical cluster analysis, and mapping. This was achieved by assessing the water quality parameters of the samples collected from Galma River in Zaria, Northwestern Nigeria in wet an...

In the modern IT industrial cluster environment, IT cluster companies increasingly depend on external sources of information to promote innovation and improve their performance. In doing so, IT cluster companies should first enhance their absorptive capacities to increase their abilities to evaluate, assimilate, and apply external knowledge to their industries. Absorptive capacity is what enabl...

Although knowledge spillovers have long been considered a critical element of economic growth in technology clusters by facilitating innovations, the relationship between characteristics of knowledge spillover network and regional cluster development is ambiguous. Based on patent co-authorship data, we construct inventor networks for two telecom clusters, New Jersey and Texas, in which the form...