We study the effects of a German national cluster policy on the structure of collaboration networks. The empirical … analysis is based on original data that was collected in fall 2011 and late summer 2013 with cluster actors (firms and public … initiating new cooperation between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. Newly formed linkages are to a …

cluster analysis is conducted for the German labor market area. Based on these characteristics six archetypes are identified …

cluster policy. Modern cluster theory provides reasons for positive external effects that may accrue from interaction in a … presents a hybrid approach to cluster identification. While dominant buyer-supplier relations are derived by qualitative input … hybrid approach are revealed with respect to variations in the quantitative cluster composition. …