Constructing Regional Advantage: Towards State-of-the-Art Regional Innovation System Policies in Europe?

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes In this respect, there are obvious problems when going from a national industrial cluster (Porter, 1990 Porter, M. 1990. The Competitive Advantage of Nations, New York: The Free Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) to a regional level (Porter, 1998 Porter, M. 1998. Clusters and the new economics of competition. Harvard Business Review, November–December: 77–90. [Google Scholar]). Ideal types are a mode of conceptual abstraction where the empirical input constituting the ideal types exists in reality, while the ideal types as such do not exist.