Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hulsink, W.
Author-Name-Last: Hulsink
Author-Name-First: Wim
Author-Name: Bouwman, H.
Author-Name-Last: Bouwman
Author-Name-First: Harry
Author-Name: Elfring, T.
Author-Name-Last: Elfring
Author-Name-First: Tom
Title: Silicon Valley in the Polder? Entrepreneurial Dynamics, Virtuous Clusters and Vicious Firms in the Netherlands and Flanders
Abstract: High-technology starters do not operate in a vacuum and innovation is not a solitary activity. The activities of technology-based firms are embedded in socio-economic networks with other companies, investors, universities, vocational institutions, etc. The geographical proximity of those institutions and infrastructural hubs will partly play a role in determine the location of ICT firms decision. Furthermore, many high-tech companies shape clusters around areas where their major customers are located. The topic of this paper is regional clustering Enright, 1992; Rosenfeld, 1997within the context of Internet and ICT technology. A dynamic model previously developed for the analysis of ICT-entrepreneurship and networking will be applied to make a critical analysis of five ICT-clusters in the Netherlands and Flanders (Northern part of Belgium): the Louvain Technology Corridor, Flanders Language Valley, Amsterdam Alley, Dommel Valley, and Twente.
Creation-Date: 2007-07-24
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/10459/ERS-2007-048-ORG.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2007-048-ORG
Classification-JEL: D21, L22, M, M13, O32
Keywords: Flanders, ICT, Netherlands, clusters, high-tech entrepreneurship, networks
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:10459