What are the respective roles of indigenous and exogenous factors in the development of high-tech regions? Entrepreneurs and their start-ups have dominated Silicon Valley’s economy in recent decades, but a different dynamic was at work from 1940 to 1965, when the Valley emerged as a formidable high-tech region. In key industries (electronics, semiconductors, computers, and aerospace) that defin...

Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be detected in the low-tech industries. From a ...

T. BAWIN*, S. BOUKRAA*, F. SEYE*/***, F.N. RAHARIMALALA*/****, J.Y. ZIMMER*, F. DELVIGNE**, F. FRANCIS* *Functional and Evolutionary Entomology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium **Bio-Industries/CWBI, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium ***Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Univer...

The phenomenon and model of industrial clusters marketing is a cross-linking subject on the industry cluster theory and regional marketing. It can answer if the high-tech industry clusters marketing belong to a traditional industrial clusters phenomenon? This paper focuses on discussion about whether there is a cluster marketing model. First the concept of clusters marketing model was defined, ...

In the context of the debate on the emergence of knowledge-based societies knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) is regarded as a central transformative mechanism that pushes this development. Consistently, the discussion about KIE has mainly focused on new technology-based firms or academic start-ups in high-tech sectors. Little attention has been paid so far to sectors that can be charac...