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The article sets out 5 advices for policymakers in investing and maintaining clusters. Topics touched upon are investment strategies and subsidies.

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The paper presents a methodology to evaluate clusters and related challenges. It also address the question as to why policy practice does not always follow evaluation theory.

The paper develops a framework for the evaluatio of clusters. It reflects on a four-year process of bringing together academics, policy-makers and practitioners from around the world to address the challenges of cluster evaluation. This process has resulted in a concrete evaluation framework and set of cluster evaluation principles which is presented in the document.

The European Cluster Panorama 2016 provides a perspective on clusters across Europe, focusing in detail on the evolution of ten emerging industries identified in in a previous version of the report from 2014, tracking their evolution in the post-crisis recovery. The report provides information on the role of existing clusters in Europe, looking at their overall size, dynamics, and patterns of...

The guide provides advice on "how to make better use of clusters for promoting regional industrial modernisation, supporting the growth of SMEs and encouraging smart specialisation". It provides an explanation of what clusters and cluster policy are, their role as well as success factors. It provides examples and highlightes several success stories of programmes, smar clusters, and instruments...

The paper discusses the cluster as a tool for the challenges of development. Clusters provide the welfare, that is a result of country's competitiveness. Cluster-based approaches could become a core tool for a “new industrial policy”.

The purpose of this paper is researching aspects of the development of cluster initiatives of territorial economic systems and government management of cluster policy to increase the competitiveness of territories. The findings suggest that analysis of industry directions in the international practice of clustering leads to the conclusion that the national characteristics of the existing cluster...

This paper presents a conceptual framework and methodologies to be applied in the identification of
trends in cluster dynamics and, in particular, in internationalisation, cross-sectoral linkages and cluster
foresight. It provides the methodological background to the "European Cluster Trends" report.

The report provides an overview of national (and some regional) cluster programmes across the EU, Montenegro, Norway, and Turkey. It maps the strategic and industrial focus of the various cluster programmes. The reports assess the extent to which the programmes are embedded in other national economic strategies and identifies the instruments the programes employ to support cluster activities.

As “cluster” became a new buzzword, governments around the world increasingly implement cluster policies. However, a relevance gap is growing between cluster research and practice. Scholars build theories about the roles of clusters as powerful entities fostering innovation and competitiveness. Meanwhile, governments and policy-driven cluster organizations struggle to manage these highly entangled...