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In a time when Europe must be restructured economically after the recession, clustering presents an ideal way to ensure local economic development and the EU’s future competitiveness, based on integrated, robust foundations that raise productivity and the implementation of innovation, according to “Clustering and City Competitiveness – an introduction” guide. Continue reading…
The report “The Geography of Innovation: The Federal Government and the Growth of Regional Innovation Clusters” by Jonathan Sallet, Ed Paisley and Justin R. Masterman focus on the importance of President Barack Obama’s call for a new federal effort to support regional innovation clusters.
McKinsey has partnered with the World Economic Forum to create an “Innovation Heat Map,” by identifying factors that are common to successful innovation hubs. As part of this effort, they have examined the evolution of hundreds of such clusters around the world and analyzed over 700 variables, Continue reading…
Global Clusters is a unique and most advanced business development program in Finland. It is specifically designed for high tech companies targeting critical mass of customers and global market presence. Continue reading…
Following the adoption of policies to promote the transnational dimension of clusters in Europe, the Commission published two surveys on statistical analysis and overview of cluster development and policy support in the EU. Continue reading…
Five years after its creation, the site Portal of the Walloon clusters was redesigned. It now hosts 13 clusters supported by the Walloon Region: Automotive; Solid Waste; Green Building; Space; Micro technology; Nutrition; Clinical Research; ICT; Transport; Energy and Environment; Multimedia. Continue reading…
“Creative Clusters in Low Density Urban Areas” is a thematic network under the URBACT II EU programme. Working assumption of the CC network is that Continue reading…
BusinessWeek Special Report on Innovation (April 2008) includes a number of intersting stories about the state of European innovation, Europe’s top inventors, and main innovation drivers. Included is a piece on Europe’s Innovation Hot Spots. European governments are making efforts to propel innovation on the continent by creating competitive clusters—areas with businesses, research centers, and educational institutions centered around a specific sector. Continue reading…
Bangalore, a city of 6.5 million in the state of Karnataka, southern India hosts a successful cluster of information technology companies, both local (Infosys, Wirpo, iGate) and multinationals. The paper “Localized advantage in a global economy: The case of Bangalore” Continue reading…
Browsing the library of OECD, I have identified quite a few books that are related to the topics that we are trying to address. The one presented below is one of the latest interesting books published by OECD. According to the abstract of the book… Continue reading…
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