Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/111898 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers on Innovation and Space No. 02.14
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Geography, Marburg
Abstract: 
While explaining cluster internal impacts on cluster development, cluster life cycle theory fails to explain the influence of cluster external factors. Based on a multiscalar approach, this study investigates factors causing change within an agritech cluster applying a qualitative approach. Main shifts in cluster development and their inducing factors from multiple scalar and thematic contexts are investigated. Concluding, incremental changes are mainly induced by knowledge dynamics within the same industry, especially from the local level. Radical change is the result of an exogenous shock from the national institutional environment. In total, specific changes are induced by specific factors from specific scales.
Subjects: 
endogenous factors
exogenous factors
cluster development
multiscalarity
cluster life cycle
JEL: 
L64
O31
O33
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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