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Erschienen in: The Annals of Regional Science 3/2018

25.10.2018 | Special Issue Paper

Innovation networks and cluster dynamics

verfasst von: Benoît Desmarchelier, Linjia Zhang

Erschienen in: The Annals of Regional Science | Ausgabe 3/2018

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Abstract

Contributions in terms of clusters life cycle indicate that intense interactions between a variety of agents within a cluster are essential to its success. Despite being accepted by the literature, to our knowledge, this view has not yet been confirmed by analyses of large temporal networks of interactions within industrial clusters. The paper proposes to fill this gap and to show that network analysis can explain clusters success, failure, and transition from one phase of the life cycle to another. In this perspective, we build and study the innovation networks of three clusters over a 10-year period. We find that clusters’ growth is all but smooth and that low assortativity and preferential attachment among agents can constitute safeguards against clusters decline. These observations support contributions advocating for non-deterministic life cycles in which clusters can still grow, even after a period of pronounced decline.

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1
Data for Skywin were collected in a previous study, see Desmarchelier et al. (2016).
 
2
A glossary of the various network concepts used in this paper is presented in “Appendix 3”.
 
10
Unfortunately, only Lyon Biopole is systematically reporting the outputs of each projects. Hence, we will not perform an analysis of the innovative output. From 2005 to 2015, Lyon Biopole produced 175 patents, published 595 scientific papers, and generated 24 start-ups, as well as 424 direct jobs—among which 328 are located in the Rône-Alpes region.
 
11
This structural break is confirmed by a statistical test (\( F=64.5 \) and \( p=0.00 \)).
 
12
Like in the bipartite case, this structural break is confirmed by a test (\( F=24.05 \) and \( p=0.00 \)).
 
13
A network is said to be of scale-free type when few of its nodes exhibit a large connectivity, while most of the other nodes are poorly connected.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Innovation networks and cluster dynamics
verfasst von
Benoît Desmarchelier
Linjia Zhang
Publikationsdatum
25.10.2018
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
The Annals of Regional Science / Ausgabe 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0570-1864
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-0592
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-018-0882-5

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