Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities … development of networks or cluster was successful, this paper focuses on the investigation of regional economic development. Using …

competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …. Finally, if cluster policies differ from related and partly overlapping approaches, such as Industrial Districts, Innovation …Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more …

considered as a tool for innovation policy aimed at stabilizing the rate of economic growth. The concept of innovation clusters … nonlinear nature of the economic processes development in the region, especially in the transition to innovative development … competitive advantage. Innovation policy is a system of rules and regulations governing the procedure of innovation implementation …

among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers …