Contextualizing Clusters in Time and Space: Long-term Dynamics, Systems of Regions, and Extra-regional Interdependencies

Abstract

Based on recent research findings, this paper highlights three important aspects of a contextual approach to the study of regional clusters. Firstly, the growth of regional clusters must be analyzed in a perspective of larger patterns of structural change (historical contextualization). Secondly, regional interdependence in national or global systems must be taken into account (system contextualization). Thirdly, intra- and extra-cluster network relations must be analyzed on equal terms and not as distinct phenomena (relational contextualization). These arguments are supported by empirical illustrations from the Scanian life science cluster in the south of Sweden.

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