IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/sereko/288776.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Clusters and Regional Economic Development Geographic Concentration of SMES as a Source of Competitive Advantages

Author

Listed:
  • Pandurevic, Nenad

Abstract

Balanced regional development, support to small and medium enterprises, stimulation of innovation and generally raising competitiveness of economy are in very focus of policy-makers of economic development in the contemporary world. Clusters as in broadest sense, geographic concentration of interconnected companies and supporting institutions its popularity in last couple decades thanks mostly the fact that by single approach they provide possibilities for realization of objectives these as well as other policies of economic development. However, it is possible to say that results achieved by cluster-based policies do not correspond to proclaimed expectation as well as cluster potential. Even there are many reasons for that, definitely it is caused by insufficient understandings theoretical foundation of cluster concept, as well as preconditions, experiences and implication of practical application of cluster-based polices, too. This article is actually about it.

Suggested Citation

  • Pandurevic, Nenad, 2012. "Clusters and Regional Economic Development Geographic Concentration of SMES as a Source of Competitive Advantages," Ekonomika, Journal for Economic Theory and Practice and Social Issues, Society of Economists Ekonomika, Nis, Serbia, vol. 58(2), June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:sereko:288776
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.288776
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/288776/files/2-2012%20pages%20159-169.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.288776?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Community/Rural/Urban Development;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:sereko:288776. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.ekonomika.org.rs .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.