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Smart guide to entrepreneurship support through clusters
By European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEsThe purpose of this Smart Guide is to provide guidance to cluster policy makers and cluster managers in designing and implementing...
The European Green Deal
By Davide BevacquaThis Communication sets out a European Green Deal for the European Union and its citizens. It resets the Commission’s commitment to tackling...
Regional cluster policies in Germany - Challenges, impacts and evaluation practices
By Davide BevacquaThis paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on cluster-policy evaluation in three ways: firstly, it focuses on regional cluster...
Rethinking cluster initiatives
By Davide BevacquaReport whose purpose is to help regional leaders focused on economic development confidently and knowledgeably embrace cluster initiatives...
Cluster strategies and smart specialisation strategy - Do they really leverage on knowledge and innovation-driven territorial growth?
By Davide BevacquaThe aim of this paper is to explore and investigate the notion of cluster strategies and smart specialisation strategy as a twin perspective...
European Cluster Policy Forum
By Deloitte, VVA, SPI, et al.The input paper to the Policy Forum provides a mapping of cluster support initatives that invest in cluster development, promote the...
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 as a tool for the Challenges of Development
By Davide BevacquaThe paper discusses the cluster as a tool for the challenges of development. Clusters provide the welfare, that is a result of country's...