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100			_aSuire, Raphel
245			_aClusters for life or life cycles of clusters _cin search of the critical factors of clusters' resilience /
260			_c2014
300			_a142-164
520			_aThis article investigates the driving forces behind the life cycles and resilience of technological clusters. It concentrates, in particular, on the combination of critical parameters which allows clusters to succeed in disconnecting their cycle from the cycle of the technologies they produce, in order to maintain stability and growth in unstable economic environments. Three propositions on location decision externalities, the life cycle of composite technologies and the structural properties of knowledge networks are developed and introduced in an inclusive study of cluster trajectories. Discussions show that resilient clusters are those that combine network and external audience effects in location decision-making and evolve towards a specific core/periphery and disassortative structure of knowledge interactions along the knowledge and market phases. Understanding these pathways could be at the heart of the renewal of cluster and regional policy in a macro-economic context characterized by high instability and new growing consumer paradigms.
650			_aResilience
650			_aDisassortativity
650			_aCore/Periphery
650			_aComposite Technology Life Cycle
650			_aLocation Externalities
650			_aCluster
773			_aEntrepreneurship & Regional Development _dJanuary
999			_c41543 _d41543