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Discover the latest reports and studies featuring insights and recommendations from experienced cluster practitioners, along with expert analysis on emerging trends and policy measures within the ECCP community.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and implications for innovative cluster policies
By Davide BevacquaThis paper argues how the Fourth Industrial Revolution can change the global production chain and how core technologies function in...
Cluster policy in an evolutionary world? Rationales, instruments and policy learning
By ECCP TeamThe article starts with the observation that while numerous studies have sought to examine their characteristics, their performance and how...
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...
European Cluster Panorama 2016
By ECCP TeamThe European Cluster Panorama 2016 provides a perspective on clusters across Europe, focusing in detail on the evolution of ten emerging...
In search of indicators to support the ‘perfect cluster’ - Where evaluation theory collides with policy practice
By ECCP TeamThe paper develops a framework for the evaluatio of clusters. It reflects on a four-year process of bringing together academics, policy...
European Cluster Trends Methodological Report
By ECCP TeamThis paper presents a conceptual framework and methodologies to be applied in the identification of trends in cluster dynamics and, in...
Cluster Collaboration and Business Support Tools to Facilitate Entrepreneurship, Crosssectoral Collaboration and Growth
By ECCP TeamThe report is mainly addressed to cluster managers interested in providing tailor-made and demand-oriented support services to cluster...
Comparing Cluster Policies: An Analytical Framework
By ECCP TeamThis paper is a part of the dissertation research and is determined to outline and deliver key triggers of a successful regional cluster...
New Approaches to Improve the Performance of Cluster Management Organisations in Europe
By ECCP TeamThe study contributes to the upcoming discussion how to provide better support schemes for cluster management organisations (and their staff...
Specificities of EU cluster policies
By ECCP TeamThe academic article analyses two basic approaches in the development of cluster initiatives in the formation of cluster policy: top-down...