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This book deals with the phenomenon of clusters which have been an important topic of the industrial economy since the 1990s. As early as at the end of the nineteenth century, Alfred Marshall described the reasons which lead to the concentration of industries in certain regions. They included sharing of workers, knowledge, and infrastructure, as well as informal contacts between people and companies, which created agglomeration savings resulting from the close proximity of economic activities.
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Zizka, M. (2021). Introduction. In: Zizka, M., Rydvalova, P. (eds) Innovation and Performance Drivers of Business Clusters. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79907-6_1
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