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Smart guide to cluster policy
By Clusters, Social Economy and Entrepreneurship unit of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs in cooperation with the Smart and Sustainable Growth unit of the Directorate-General for RegionalThe Smart Guide to Cluster Policy is a new tool for policy-makers and practitioners to support industrial modernisation, SME growth and...
Impact evaluation of cluster development programmes
By Davide BevacquaCluster development programmes (CDPs) aim to support industrial clusters of agglomerated firms to achieve higher productivity and...
The impact of cluster policy on innovation
By Davide BevacquaThis handbook chapter seeks to address the evidence gap between the widespread presence of clusters and the question of whether public...
Cluster policy relevance on regional development
By Davide BevacquaThe importance of an enabling environment for business and entrepreneurship, particularly for SMEs is complemented by the need to improve...
Comparing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Cluster Initiatives from a Principal-Agent Perspective - What We Can Learn for Designing Governance Regimes
By Davide BevacquaThe paper compares the governance regimes of top-down and bottom-up cluster initiatives by using a classic principal-agent framework...