Performance gains and losses from network centrality in cluster located firms: a longitudinal studyFootnote^*

* We gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from the EU FRIDA project (7th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Grant nr: 225546) and the MIUR-PRIN Funding Scheme (Project: Performance drivers and evolutionary dynamics of geographical clusters). We are deeply grateful to Carlo Boschetti and Gianni Lorenzoni for their support. We also wish to extend our thanks to Paul Allison, Petra Andries, Charles Baden-Fuller, Cristina Boari, Emilio Castilla, Raffaele Corrado, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Fabio Fonti, Alfonso Gambardella, Elizabeth Garnsey, Federico Signorini, Maurizio Sobrero, AnnaLee Saxenian, Mattheus Urwyler and all the participants in the workshop series of the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center for fruitful comments. In addition, we thank the Sociology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where the first author spent a visiting period during the completion of this manuscript.

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