From success to failure, the disappearance of clusters: a study of a Norwegian boat-building cluster

Abstract The article analyses the decline and disappearance of regional clusters, with an empirical investigation of why a boat-building cluster in Norway failed after the 2008 financial crisis. The article combines insights into lock-in processes that take place at the cluster and regional innovati...

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Published in:Cambridge journal of regions, economy and society economy and society, 2018-06, Vol.11 (2), p.241-255
Main Author: Isaksen, Arne
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Abstract The article analyses the decline and disappearance of regional clusters, with an empirical investigation of why a boat-building cluster in Norway failed after the 2008 financial crisis. The article combines insights into lock-in processes that take place at the cluster and regional innovation system level with lock-in processes at the entrepreneur and firm level. The latter level focuses on the development of local conventions of how production activities should occur as a potential key lock-in process. The failure of the boat-building cluster is explained by a convention supporting artisan craft production and little support from the regional innovation system.
ISSN:1752-1378
1752-1386
DOI:10.1093/cjres/rsy007