The economic agglomeration from the Romanian seaports at the halfway between industrial district and industrial cluster

Abstract

With the increasing popularity of the cluster concept, ever more economic agglomerations tend to be classified as clusters just after a brief examination, at the expense of older but better shaped models. The implications of such attitudes are found most often in undersized political dispo-sitions that follow. In this article we support the concept according to which, the economic agglom-eration model localized in the Romanian seaports is in a transition phase between the type represent-ed by the industrial district and that set forth by the industrial cluster, borrowing features from both, but identifying with none. To substantiate this view, we show that the two types of economic ag-glomeration largely reflect industrial practices used in the moment in which they emerged.