Hubs, clusters, or technopoles- whatever you call them, these special places are suppose to foster intense collaboration. But are there even more effective collaborative environments, and how would you recognize one?

Emphasizing knowledge entrepreneurs in a SME standard, this article focuses on the attributes of knowledge entrepreneurs while identifying key businesses that fit this description and their locations worldwide. This article was recently published in CESifo Forum 2007/2.

This paper discusses the relative performance of two of the larger European healthcare biotechnology economies, Germany and the UK. It updates to 2006 material first gathered in the late 1990s showing longitudinally the evolutionary trajectories in the main biotechnology clusters of the two countries.

A comparative analysis of the biotechnology clusters located in Cardiff, Wales; Washington DC and its surrounding metropolitan area; and Cambridge, UK to determine whether the cluster effect occuring at these locations is advancing the regional gentrification efforts.

The focus of this paper is the creative industries and the formation of systems composed of creative businesses that interact with each other. The potential for creative industry systems to assemble is heightening with creative businesses no longer just ‘filling the gaps’ between biotechnology buildings in high-tech parks....

In April 2006, Jane Jacobs—analyst of cities—died. As written in the Financial Times obituary of 27 April 2006 “. . . She spent much of her career fighting for one deceptively simple principle: leave cities alone and let them develop by themselves . . .”.  read more »