ABSTRACT
High-technology clusters are one of the most visible manifestations of what Michael Storper and Allen Scott (1995) term the construction of place-specific economic culture and order. This is often based on gaining an early start within the development of infant industries for which product frameworks have not yet matured into a specific identifiable technological trajectory. This results in an innate requirement for business networks, since:
This openness within a potentially highly competitive marketplace is an important indicator of the link between high-technology activity and cluster formation.
