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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
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  • 2002
  • Other Unpublished Work

A View of Ontario: Ontario's Clusters of Innovation

By: Michael E. Porter
In Working Paper 1, A view of Ontario: Ontario's clusters of innovation, we reviewed the importance of clusters of traded industries to an economy's productivity, innovation, and standard of living. Professor Michael Porter of the Institute for Strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Canada
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  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

the Cluster Mapping Project, uses statistical techniques to profile the performance over time of regional economies in the U.S., with a special focus on clusters. Clusters are geographically concentrated... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2015
  • News

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

What to Know About Locating in a Cluster

  • 28 Jul 2004
  • News

Clusters for rural health

  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

What to Know About Locating in a Cluster

  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

Vietnamese manicurists, Korean dry cleaners, Haitian cab drivers, Gujarati motel owners. Anyone who lives in an American city can see how immigrants tend to cluster in industries along ethnic lines. Is this because they are forced to by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail
  • July 2005
  • Journal Article

How to Evaluate Clusters

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
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  • January 2016
  • Article

Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters

By: Juan Alcacer and Minyuan Zhao
This paper takes a close look at the reasons, procedures, and results of cluster identification methods. Despite being a popular research topic in strategy, economics, and sociology, geographic clusters are often studied with little consideration given to the... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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  • 2007
  • Report

The Role of Clusters in the Chemical Industry

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The European Chemical Industry, still in the leading position globally, is under intense competitive pressure from emerging locations in Asia and the Middle East. After first reacting by efficiency upgrading within companies and then pursuing outsourcing and aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Chemical Industry; Asia; Europe; Middle East
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  • 18 Oct 2017
  • News

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

  • August 2006 (Revised May 2016)
  • Case

Cluster Mobilization in Mitteldeutschland

By: Jeffrey Fear, Christian H.M. Ketels and Claudia Linsenmeier
As part of the privatization in Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dow Chemical made a major investment in the Halle-Leipzig region, one of the largest chemical industry sites in Europe. The executive in charge of Dow's operations in the region, Bart... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Development Economics; Privatization; Chemicals; Foreign Direct Investment; Management Teams; Private Sector; Competitive Strategy; Brands and Branding; Market Participation; Chemical Industry; Germany
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  • January 2010
  • Article

Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

By: William R. Kerr
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent... View Details
Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Patents; Labor; Immigration; United States
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  • 01 May 2010
  • Lecture

Clusters and Start-Up Location Choice

By: William R. Kerr
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Geographic Location
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  • May 2011
  • Teaching Note

The Dutch Flower Cluster (TN)

By: Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Michael E. Porter
Teaching Note for 711507. View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Auctions; Industry Clusters; Competition; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Netherlands; China; Colombia; Ecuador; Kenya
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  • Mar 2017
  • Talk

Palm Oil and Cluster Competition

By: Valeria Giacomin
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  • August 2006
  • Teaching Note

Cluster Mobilization in Mitteldeutschland (TN)

By: Jeffrey Fear and Christian H.M. Ketels
Teaching Note to 707004. View Details
Keywords: Chemical Industry; Germany
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  • 20 Dec 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters

Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Minyuan Zhao
  • Web

Compute Cluster - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster and Data Storage Compute Cluster and Data Storage Compute Cluster 35ms Running Jobs Comprehensive guide to running programs and scripts on the HBSGrid,... View Details