The Competitiveness of Clusters in Globalized Markets

The competitiveness of local and regional clusters vis-à-vis the challenge set by increasing globalization. The global dispersion of production is currently increased by formation of global business networks that can make regional and national innovation systems replaceable. All this weakens the resilience of clusters. What solution may be envisaged in this context?_x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.