Growth Poles and Clusters: Are There Useful Analytical Complementarities?

Charis Vlados and Dimos Chatzinikolaou

Business and Economic Research, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, 155-175

Abstract: This article aims to critically review the advancements in the study of contemporary dynamics of local development under the prism of the analytical perspectives of growth poles and clusters. We proceed to a literature review of clusters and growth poles and attempt an analytical synthesis. The analysis of growth poles appears to remain within the interpretive limits of traditional economic geography, focusing mainly on the dimension of regional agglomerations. At the same time, the broader literature on clusters deals more with interdisciplinary issues in their global perspective by starting increasingly its analysis from the micro-dynamics articulated at the firm level. This article proposes a conceptual extension to the analysis of the current dynamics of local development in the framework of the "competitiveness web" that takes into account all the interdependent levels of space and actors.

Keywords: Local development; Growth poles; Clusters; Helix theory; Competitiveness web (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ber/article/view/16307/12687 (application/pdf)
http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ber/article/view/16307 (text/html)

Related works:
Working Paper: Growth Poles and Clusters: Are There Useful Analytical Complementarities? (2020)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mth:ber888:v:10:y:2020:i:1:p:155-175

Access Statistics for this article

Business and Economic Research is currently edited by Daisy Young

More articles in Business and Economic Research from Macrothink Institute
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Technical Support Office ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).