The Economics of Clusters

Jérôme Vicente (1)

1 LEREPS - Laboratoire d'Etude et de Recherche sur l'Economie, les Politiques et les Systèmes Sociaux

The economics of clusters has grown in popularity in the early 1990s at the crossroads of economic geography and economics of innovation. This chapter surveys both clusters theories and empirics, and distinguishes what comes from natural market and network interactions from what comes from public incentives and regional policy.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Economics and Finance

Jérôme Vicente. The Economics of Clusters. Cristiano Antonelli. Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation, Edward Elgar, pp.98-107, 2022, 978-1-83910-698-9. ⟨10.4337/9781839106996.00016⟩. ⟨hal-03823726⟩