Founders and disseminators of cluster research

Clusters and Industrial Districts: Where is the Literature Going? Identifying Emerging Sub-Fields of Research

“…Despite the different methodological approaches employed, our work agrees with the observations of Lazzeretti et al (2014) about a trend towards diversification within the field of study and a relevant "cross-disciplinary nature" of the cluster concept, highlighting in particular the significant roles of both "management" and "innovation" perspectives in the field of clusters. Besides, our results are partially coincidental with the research themes of Teixeira (2010, p. 1267), although the latter is restricted only to a particular journal, Regional Studies.…”

“…This approach allows us to look to the future and consider the prospect for different research areas. Besides, our work perfectly complements constructively those previous works focused on retrospective accounts (Lazzeretti et al, 2014). In this paper, we focus particularly on cluster/industrial districts.…”

“…Bibliometric coupling utilizes a prospective lens which complements other approaches carried out before based on co-citation analysis to obtain a picture of the origin and development of the cluster concept Lazzeretti et al, 2014). Despite the different methodological approaches employed, our work agrees with the observations of Lazzeretti et al (2014) about a trend towards diversification within the field of study and a relevant "cross-disciplinary nature" of the cluster concept, highlighting in particular the significant roles of both "management" and "innovation" perspectives in the field of clusters.…”

“…Recent contributions notwithstanding Lazzeretti et al, 2014;, the cluster literature has included very few systematic and objective "bibliometric" reviews carried. Moreover, all those works which have reviewed the literature-tracing intellectual origins, producing a history of founders or highlighting the most-cited papers Lazzeretti et al, 2014)-have provided "retrospective" accounts by using direct citation counts and cocitation analysis. While scholars have become quite active in that literature, it remains rather fragmented, finding key contributions in economics, management or economic geography strands about the same topics.…”

Platforming for Path-Breaking? The Case of Regional Electromobility Initiatives in Germany

“…For decades regional clusters (e.g., Bathelt, 2005;Lazzeretti, Sedita, & Caloffi, 2014;Martin & Sunley, 2003;Porter, 2000) have been seen as hot spots of knowledge creation and transfer or, more broadly, learning (e.g., Bathelt, Malmberg, & Maskell, 2004;Cooke, 2001;Ibert, 2007;Malmberg & Maskell, 2002;Maskell, 2001;Morgan, 1997). This view cumulated over the years into the conception of clusters as the institution for knowledge-based economic development, although negative path dependencies and even the dangers of lock-ins have also been recorded with respect to clusters for some time (Grabher, 1993;Hassink, 2005Hassink, , 2010Henning, Stam, & Wenting, 2013;Lagerholm & Malmberg, 2009;Martin, 2010;Martin & Sunley, 2006).…”