Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation … technological development. The third step was an assessment of CEECs innovation and R&D policies, and their linkages with …

innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting …Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers …

summarizes key findings from the previous research papers on the role of clusters in the New Growth Path (MS47) and on a new … policy implications from this research. For clusters, these implications address both general practices of cluster …

This paper explores the links between open innovation and the emergence of a phoenix industry - the low carbon vehicles … innovation" approaches in driving the sector, for example noting that smaller firms can sometimes innovate more quickly …