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Introduction

In: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

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  • Héctor O. Rocha

    (IAE Business School)

Abstract

Some 400 million people are starting or running new businesses, and hundreds of cluster initiatives have been launched in all the regions of the world (see Kelley, Slavica Singer, and Herrington, 2012; Porter, 2003a: p. 5; UNIDO, 2009) to promote entrepreneurship and employment growth (Delgado, Porter, and Stern, 2010; OECD, 2009). For example, two-thirds of European Union countries have introduced the cluster approach in their innovation policy (UNIDO, 2009) and almost all of the international organizations have launched cluster and entrepreneurship policies, suggesting that clusters and entrepreneurship foster economic development.1

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  • Héctor O. Rocha, 2013. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, chapter 1, pages 1-41, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-29826-3_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137298263_1
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