This report investigates the potential contribution of clusters and cluster policies in the design and implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategies. Both cluster policies and Smart Specialisation Strategies are policy approaches with a place-based dimension, aiming at exploiting advantages...

We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than output per current worker,...

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Servitization for territorial competitiveness: taxonomy and research agenda -- Organisational change towards servitization: a theoretical framework -- Service orientation as a strategic marketing tool: the moderating effect of business sector -- Digital dark...

This publication presents the main findings, results and achievements of the first 3 years of research and work of the European Cluster Observatory. The Observatory has provided, for the first time, a quantitative analysis of European clusters based on a fully comparable and consistent...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- About the BCG Henderson Institute -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Building Resilience -- Chapter 1 Resilience vs. Efficiency: Calibrating the Trade-off -- Chapter 2 When Resilience is More Important than Efficiency -- Chapter 3 Advantage in Adversity --...