In August 2022, the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a comprehensive piece of legislation aiming to stimulate the US economy and to increase its resilience. At an estimated 430 billion euros, it is a massive government investment and spending program in the welfare state,...

Im August 2022 hat der US- Kongress ein umfangreiches Bundesgesetz, den Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), verabschie- det, das der US-Wirtschaft zu mehr Wachstum und Resilienz verhelfen soll. Es ist ein massives staatliches Investitions- und Ausgabenprogramm in den Sozialstaat, in die bundesweite...

In the US and Europe many clusters initiatives have recently been launched. National and regional governments have been defining and implementing clusters policies and programmes with the aim to identifying, launching and finally consolidating international competitive clusters in their...