Innovation Performance and Clusters

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Nicole Röttmer

   Pages 1-18

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3. Grounding in the Literature: Innovativeness of Regions and Firms

   • Nicole Röttmer

   Pages 19-41

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4. Clusters and Innovation Capabilities: Deriving and Operationalizing a Priori Constructs

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   Pages 42-64

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5. Designing a Research Effort into the Innovativeness of Regional Satellite Navigation Application Clusters

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   Pages 65-84

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6. Case Study Results

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   Pages 85-170

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7. Research Results - Embedding into the Literature, Summary and Outlook

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   Pages 171-183

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8. Back Matter

   Pages 185-207

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Developed economies require high levels of innovativeness to sustain economic growth. Clusters are one of the building blocks of the European Commission’s innovation strategy. However, they are often not as innovative as expected. While strong quantitative insights into the resource base of successful clusters exist, evidence on soft success factors is anecdotal and dispersed across research streams. Nicole Röttmer sets out to identify and describe these capabilities, their impact on cluster innovativeness in the interplay with (proprietary) cluster resources and their development over time in a comprehensive, dynamic model. In a cross-case setting, she illustrates the applicability of dynamic capabilities to a network setting and the impact of capabilities on cluster performance, providing an impetus for a change in cluster development policies and cluster management practices.

• Best practice
• Dynamic capabilities
• Satellitennavigation
• Strategic Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Dr. Nicole Röttmer wrote her dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bernhard R. Katzy at the Center for Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Leiden.

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