What drives innovativeness in industrial clusters? Transcending the debate
超越区域层面，利用企业演化理论，推导出区域集聚刺激学习和创新的机制类型，调和了关于本地知识溢出驱动创新的争论，认为该争论的理论基础已所剩无几。
The paper throws new light on the debate about the role played by local knowledge spillovers (LKS) as a driver of regional innovative activity. It transcends the regional level of analysis that has been commonly adopted in the literature so far, using insights from the evolutionary theory of the firm. This makes it possible to derive a typology of mechanisms through which regional agglomeration may stimulate learning and innovation. When this typology is brought to bear on the extant approaches in the debate, the contrasting viewpoints can be reconciled to some extent. The main conclusion is that little theoretical ground for the LKS debate remains.