Economic issues of innovation clusters-based industrial policy: a critical overview Online publication date: Mon, 14-May-2018
by B.G. Jean Jacques Iritié
Global Business and Economics Review (GBER), Vol. 20, No. 3, 2018
Abstract: Criticisms vis-à-vis cluster policy are numerous, often confusing and really unhelpful; while some authors systematically question the merits, others on the contrary play a genuine role of counsel in his favour. This paper attempts to refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues and implications of the innovation clusters policy. We take a critical view of the literature on clusters, focusing on analysis of the effects of three industrial dynamics in perpetual movement within clusters, i.e. research and development, industrial location and technology cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster 'potentiates', by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these three industrial dynamics in favour of localised firms. It appears from our analysis that these expectations invested in cluster policy must be relativised. So the reasons for the rising power of cluster policies must be sought elsewhere than in a necessarily consensual and tangible evidence of their positive impacts.
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