Cluster studies have shown that innovation can be understood as the result of an inter- organizational process, where a … division of labor with regard to exploration and exploitation exists among the actors inside the cluster. A cluster is … approaches by means of exploration. In this context we are interested in the supportive role of cluster management, assuming that …

We study the effects of a German national cluster policy on the structure of collaboration networks. The empirical … analysis is based on original data that was collected in fall 2011 and late summer 2013 with cluster actors (firms and public … initiating new cooperation between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. Newly formed linkages are to a …

, increasingly di-rected to cluster formation. In the light of the growing attention and financial efforts that cluster … innovating by interacting. A policy lesson can be drawn from these find-ings: cluster-based policies are to be treated with …

actors. In 2008 the German ministry for education and research (BMBF) started the "Leading-Edge Cluster competition … 2011 with cluster actors (firms and public research) who received government funding. Our results indicate that the program … was quite effective in initiating new cooperations between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. The vast …

collaborative R&D projects that were funded within the "Leading-Edge Cluster Competition" - the main national cluster funding …