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Comparing cluster policies - An analytical framework
By Davide Bevacqua"This paper outlines and deliver key triggers of a successful regional cluster policy. It first makes a broad reflection on the theory of...
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...
Cluster Policies, organising capacity and regional resilience - Evidence from German case studies
By Davide BevacquaThis paper departs from the assumption that by improving a region’s organising capacity, cluster policies can strengthen regional resilience...
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...
Cluster Policy - A guide to the state of debate
By Davide BevacquaAlthough there is increasing consensus that the presence of clusters enhances economic outcomes, there is little consensus on whether there...
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...
The Cluster Initiative Greenbook 2.0
By ECCP TeamThis document presents a study of cluster initiatives: what they do, how they operate, how they perform. The document provides a...
Clusters, Cluster policy, and Swedish competitiveness in the global economy
By Davide BevacquaThe central question of the paper is how can cluster-based economic policy help countries - in this case, Sweden - succeed in global...