In the last two decades hundreds of cluster initiatives have been launched involving virtually all regions of the world … and their number is growing. Cluster initiatives are viewed as conscious actions taken by various actors to create or … other public authorities are known to be responsible for most cluster initiatives, although there is a marked geographical …

competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … looking at the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the …

Cluster policy has gained remarkable prominence in regional and sectoral structural policy in industrialized countries … cluster potentials on the local and regional levels. But is this instrument applicable in development policy, too? In this …

) is the growth in cluster's competitiveness. In this paper a number of economic-statistical models were constructed using … to cause a reduction in the competitiveness of the cluster. Obtained models permit to assert that social capital is the … successful clustering is the development of entrepreneurship, and the expected result (i.e. the purpose of cluster initiatives …

Cluster initiatives can be classified as government & international organization's interventions in economic processes … with the declared purpose of improving the competitiveness of manufacturers due to joining the efforts of the stakeholders … authors deem that the main focus of cluster initiatives should be the employment's effectiveness, that implies an increase in …

innovation programmes and also in many national and regional strategic documents of member states. The cluster development … economic development and competitiveness at regional level. The expectations of their role is still growing as it can be seen … in the statements of official documents of European Union concerning social and economic cohesion or competitiveness and …

This paper presents a novel empirical study of innovation practices of U.S. companies and their relation to … productivity levels using new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for the … outputs of innovation activities into four latent unobserved innovation modes or practices for OECD countries using Community …

The competitiveness of enterprises depends not only on their strategies and operations but also on the macroeconomic … enterprise competitiveness development in the Czech Republic which focus mainly to the infrastructure for industrial research …, innovation, industry clusters, human resources and business development. …

technological development. For this reason we rely on the final results of a research project on women in innovation, technology and …

innovation in medical devices on health costs and expenditure; b) the innovativeness of the European medical device industry; c …) the competitiveness of the European medical device industry as compared to that of the United States and Japan. …