Polskie i brytyjskie innowacyjne klastry na drodze kreowania konkurencyjności regionu
The role of Polish and British innovation clusters in creating competitiveness of the region

Summary/Abstract: This paper provides an examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in all or most activities is favoured by certain common characteristics in the local “milieu”, involving an innovation cluster of many small firms benefiting from flexible inter-firm alliances, supported by mutual information exchanges of both an informal and formal nature. The general applicability of this model, and the localness of crucial linkages, is questioned on the basis of a theoretical analysis of the innovation processes and relations between actors and their environments, leading to the identification of a range of different hypotheses about the geography of innovation.

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