evaluation of cluster initiatives. There will also be proposed basic precautions that should lead to the desired performance … specific form alliances - the cluster. The competitiveness of regions goes hand in hand with support for cluster organizations … paper is to evaluate and assess the efficiency and competitiveness of selected cluster groups in the Moravian and Silesian …

-food clusters. Refering to Hayek's concept of pretence of knowledge and empirical evidence of cluster facilitation policies of other … countries the success of the Kazakhstani cluster initiative is questioned. … Cluster-Initiative in Kasachstan in Frage gestellt. …

actors. In 2008 the German ministry for education and research (BMBF) started the Leading-Edge Cluster competition … 2011 with cluster actors (firms and public research) who received government funding. Our results indicate that the program … was quite effective in initiating new cooperations between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. The vast …

why they are necessary in creating a dynamic cluster of regional growth. In doing so, we try to link agglomeration … advantages of the new economic geography with competitive advantages of Porter's cluster theory. But we also go beyond these …

This paper challenges the uselfullness of the cluster-based development strategy to diversify and increase the … Austrian Market Process Theory. It is argued that already the theoretical foundations of the cluster concept suffer from severe … cluster development program in Kazakhstan's agro-food sectors shows that cluster facilitation in practice turned out to be …

's biotech firms. Analysing the demographic process of cluster emergence we show that there exist different types of biotech … analysis of these cross-cluster links may provide important insights of how learning and innovation works in China's health …

cluster in Cluj county, created as a complex swot analysis based on of relevant local, regional and national databases and … official studies. The primary data were correlated focusing on the multifactorial role of associative form, which cluster is … revealed the importance of a cluster on the field, but, in the same time, exposed the difficulties that is has to confront in …

development of networks or cluster was successful, this paper focuses on the investigation of regional economic development. Using …

This paper focuses on cluster facilitators and their efforts in facilitating the development of clusters. At present …, the vast majority of literature presents a uniform image of cluster facilitators despite the fact that different types of … clusters influence their role and purpose. Thus, the aim of this paper is to explore how the roles and purposes of cluster …