and innovation potential, the cluster approach has become appealing in different fields of economic policy. In particular … cluster-based instruments are in integral part of EU regional policy (Christensen et al., 2011). In most EU countries cluster … diverse national and regional programmes were set up to promote cluster development (Török, 2012). Although the cluster …

providing funding for infrastructure formation. The selection of cluster initiatives was based on applications from regional … sectors, as shown by studies of the Russian Cluster Observatory. But a lot of potential clusters in Russia is not formed due … as areas of geographical concentration of small and medium businesses (SME). We also wanted to check whether the existing …

For more than two decades cluster policies have emerged as a central focus for decision-makers trying to instigate … is no surprise that several regions are trying to implement their development strategies based on a broad Sea Cluster … performed for the Atlantic Area under project KIMERAA, this paper evaluates the consolidation of the Sea Cluster in the Algarve …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …

The paper aims to examine the role of academic institutions in the development of the ICT cluster of the Waterloo … universities does not automatically result in the development of an ICT cluster. In the region of Waterloo three academic … Learning - shape and stimulate the regional ICT cluster, which now includes up to 700 stakeholders from global market leaders …

economic growth and competitiveness. Based on this cluster policy has been widely used to spur economic change, especially on … the sub-national level. The public support to cluster development was widely done following the observed examples in the … United States aiming to follow their success stories. Most commonly applied cluster policy approach composed of cluster …