Title

Regional Innovation Clusters: A Critical Review

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Article

Publication Date

2011

College/Unit

Regional Research Institute

Abstract

This paper begins by investigating the Obama administration”s rationale of promoting regional innovation clusters (RICs) in the context of increasing public concerns on the Strategy for American Innovation. Next, the connections between RICs and existing research and policies in clusters, innovation and regional economic development are identified and analyzed to highlight those most critical challenges in conceptualizing and theorizing RICs. While we applaud the long overdue focus of economic development policies on subnational regions we identify several major difficulties associated with the development of empirics for promoting RICs and informing policymakers with practitioner-accessible tools and metrics before concluding.

Source Citation

YU, J. and JACKSON, R. (2011), Regional Innovation Clusters: A Critical Review. Growth and Change, 42: 111-124. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2257.2011.00546.x

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