| European Cluster Collaboration Platform

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Industrial Symbiosis (IS) represents a powerful tool to help the EU reach its carbon-neutral ambitions. It is only when companies identify real savings on material costs that IS partnerships will become a strategic...

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Cluster managers, Investors, SME

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Webinars

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Cloud services have become the de-facto source of digital transformation for enterprises in every industry and the preferred IT consumption model for consumers. Until now, European cloud and IT service providers have...

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Cluster managers, SME

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Interactive workshops

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Is your cluster interested in doing business in Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile or Argentina? Are you working on green tech? The Low Carbon and Circular Economy Business Action is a European Union (EU) funded...

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Cluster managers, Cluster Policy Makers, SME

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Cluster presence and economic performance: a new look based on European data

Cluster presence is significantly and positively related to industry-level wages. This finding underpins the importance of understanding clusters as groups of related industries, not just as the concentration of economic activity in a specific field. The cluster effect remains meaningful and significant once business environment quality, a very powerful driver of performance, is accounted for.

https://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2020.1792435

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Cluster-Based Economic Development Strategies

The online article provides a brief introduction to clusters. It provides a definition of clusters, as well as a typology. The article further identifies a number of cluster-based economic development strategies

https://icma.org/articles/cluster-based-economic-development-strategies

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In search of indicators to support the ‘perfect cluster’ - Where evaluation theory collides with policy practice

The paper develops a framework for the evaluatio of clusters. It reflects on a four-year process of bringing together academics, policy-makers and practitioners from around the world to address the challenges of cluster evaluation. This process has resulted in a concrete evaluation framework and set of cluster evaluation principles which is presented in the document.

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New Approaches to Improve the Performance of Cluster Management Organisations in Europe

The study contributes to the upcoming discussion how to provide better support schemes for cluster management organisations (and their staff) striving for excellence. The report provides the findings from interviews with implementing authorities as well as cluster managers and identifies a list of good practices.

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Factors of Cluster Initiatives Management

The paper identifies Critical Success Factors of cluster initiatives management. The study was based on interviews conducted among European cluster managers representing 19 cluster initiatives located in 10 countries. The results of this study support more effective management and better organization of cluster development processes. They are specifically tailored for entrepreneurs, willing to initiate or establishing cluster initiatives, as well as managers .