目次

1. Cluster Advantage and Firm Performance: A Shift into the Future.- Part 1. Agglomerations and Performance.- 2. Effects of Being Located in a Cluster on Economic Actors.- 3. Pathways of innovation: The I-district effect revisited.- 4. Does innovation trigger internationalisation of clusters? – the case of Polish boiler-making cluster.- 5. Inward FDI and skilled labor force in Veneto’s industrial districts.- Part 2. Agglomeration and Firm's Performance.- 6. Marshallian industrial district evolution: technological impacts and firms heterogeneity.-  7. Where should I locate my hotel? An in-depth analysis of the cluster effect on hotel’s performance.- 8. The story of cluster as a cross-boundary concept: from local development to management studies.- 9. How local knowledge networks and firm internal characteristics evolve across time inside science parks.- 10. The role of leading firms in explaining evolutionary paths of growth:  Italian and Turkish clusters on the move.- 11. New roles for supporting organizations in clusters: enhancing connectedness in knowledge networks.- Part 3. Agglomerations, Turnarounds and Recessions.- 12. Endogenous rerouting and longevity in Systemic organizations of production.- 13. Natural disasters and firm resilience in Italian Industrial Districts.- 14. Coping with economic crises: cluster associations and firm performance in the Basque Country.- 15. Italian Industrial Districts and the 2008 Recession.- 16. Industrial districts/clusters and smart specialisation policies.