The strategic and technological determinants of the structural forms of Hi-tech Clusters

International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 296-312

  Schiavone, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

dependency; Hi Tech Clusters; inter firm relationships; knowledge; technological complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950147663     PISSN: 17465370     EISSN: 17465389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTE.2008.020541     Document Type: Article

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43. I would like to thank Dr Giorgio Inzerilli for his thorough and inspiring critique received during my period as Visiting Researcher at Erasmus University in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Needless to say, I remain responsible for any shortcoming I had failed to correct. I also thank the two anonymous referees who reviewed the paper. The research leading to this paper was supported by a grant from University Parthenope and Regione Campania (Research Programme: “Progetto 10 Idee”).
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48. Markusen (1996) too argues that there are clusters (labelled ‘sticky places’) that do not find a perfect match within none type of her taxonomy.
49. It is important to remark that in HC also R&D labs and public research centres can be considered as members of the supply-chain of lead firms. Indeed, the core business of these research-based organisations is the production of new scientific and/or technological knowledge often financed by the HC larger companies.