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 …

Cluster policy has gained remarkable prominence in regional and sectoral structural policy in industrialized countries … cluster potentials on the local and regional levels. But is this instrument applicable in development policy, too? In this …

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 …

innovation programmes and also in many national and regional strategic documents of member states. The cluster development … cluster initiatives for starting cluster-based policies are mostly public sector driven. The public sector has in the past … infrastructure on which clusters can grow. The Czech Republic adopted the comprehensive approach to cluster-based policies which are …

industrial clusters) should be tailored according to a typology of clusters. This typology must take into account the cluster … by reviewing, from the point of view of policy-making, the theories that support industrial cluster analyses, namely …

policies and literature. After showing the RIS conceptual framework and the differences with the cluster framework, the paper …