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New Firms, Regional Development and the Cluster Approach—What Can Technology Policies Achieve?

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Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition

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The aim of this paper is to assess the interdependencies between technology policies, clusters in a spatial-sectoral sense, and regional growth. Particular emphasis is placed on the discussion of the role new firms or start-ups play within interrelationships of these three elements.

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Sternberg, R. (2003). New Firms, Regional Development and the Cluster Approach—What Can Technology Policies Achieve?. In: Bröcker, J., Dohse, D., Soltwedel, R. (eds) Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24760-9_17

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