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 …

, cluster policy has attracted the attention of development policy. Indeed, the case for using cluster policies to promote … economic development is in principle not confined to the context of industrialized countries. As cluster policies necessarily … countries will always differ from their use in industrialized ones. Surely, individual cluster policies in developing contries …