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Cluster Advantage and Firm Performance: A Concluding Remark

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Agglomeration and Firm Performance

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This book does not represent only an up-to-date analysis on the industrial districts and clusters (ID/C) theory, involving several experts coming from different academic experiences and European and non-European country origins (Spain, Chaps. 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 14; Italy, Chaps. 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, and 16; Germany, Chap. 3; the UK, Chaps.

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Acknowledgments

Professor Dr. Hervas-Oliver has received financial support from ECO-63645-R (MINECO/FEDER) from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness. Additionally, this work is part of the research project PRAT (2014) “Moving knowledge into action: exploring the micro-foundation of an innovation ecosystem,” funded by the University of Padova and headed by Prof. Dr. Silvia Rita Sedita CPDA142857/14.

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  1. Padova University, Padova, Italy

    Fiorenza Belussi

  2. ESIC Business and Marketing School, Madrid, Spain

    Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver

  3. Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver

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Belussi, F., Hervas-Oliver, JL. (2018). Cluster Advantage and Firm Performance: A Concluding Remark. In: Belussi, F., Hervas-Oliver, JL. (eds) Agglomeration and Firm Performance. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90575-4_17

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