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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …

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 …