If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the "Cluster Initiativeʺ introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative...

If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the Cluster Initiativeʺ introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...

If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the "Cluster Initiative" introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...

This paper discusses the role of so-called national champions within the context of the EU's ambitious goal to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economic region in the world by 2010. We find football to be a useful analogy in our discussion of national champions. There are...

This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the De-velopment of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the...

Forschung und Innovation sind zentrale Determinanten der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Nationen. Auch für die Europäische Union und ihre Mitgliedstaaten sind Forschung und Innovation von großer Bedeutung, um ihren Wohlstand und ihre wirtschaftliche Souveränität auch in Zukunft zu sichern....

Der Verein für Socialpolitik hat auf seiner Jahrestagung im September diesen Jahres Leitlinien zu Standards von Evaluationen wirtschaftspolitischer Maßnahmen verabschiedet. Diese Leitlinien formulieren einen einheitlichen Bewertungsmaßstab für die Güte von Programmevaluationen. Der Beitrag...