Focus Group on Clusters

Lead country: The Netherlands

Contact person: Pim den Hertog, Dialogic, NL

Objective:

To explore to what extent and in which respects clusters differ in their innovation performance and mechanisms of knowledge sharing and transfer, with a view to deriving implications for cluster-based innovation policy. This focus group will concentrate on:

• Improving and applying the common methodology for input-output analysis (macro-clustering).

• Comparing selected individual clusters internationally.

• Developing and applying a typology of clusters based on their innovation patterns.

Workshop of the Focus Group on Clusters, 8-9 May 2000, Utrecht

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• Thor Egil Braadland and Johan Hauknes, Innovation in the Norwegian Food Cluster

• Jan Larosse (IWT), Patrick Slaets (Fabrimetal) and Jan Wauters (IMEC), The ICT Cluster in Flanders

• René Wintjes, Flanders Language Valley

• Erik Brouwer and Pim den Hertog, Key Data on the Dutch Information and Communication Cluster

• David Charles and Paul Benneworth, Clustering and Economic Complexity: Regional Clusters of the ICT Sector in the United Kingdom

• Michael S. Dahl, Synopsis for the Danish Cluster Studies

• Marc Tiri, Rachel Moreau, Ludo Peeters and Adrian Berwert, Identification of Clusters in Switzerland

• Roy Green, Irish ICT Cluster

• Laura Paija, Industrial Network Relationships in the Finnish ICT Cluster

• Patick Vock, A First Sketch of the Swiss Construction Cluster

• Cristina Chaminade, Innovation in the Spanish Information and Communication (ICT) Cluster

• Pamela Symes, Clusters and Social Inclusion

• Alex Hoen, Three Variations on Identifying Clusters

• Tuomo Pentikäinen and Sakari Luukkainen, Trade-flow-based Industrial Clusters in the Finnish Economy : Growth through National Synergies

• Pim den Hertog, Erik Brouwer and Sven Maltha, Innovation in an Adolescent Cluster : The Case of the Dutch Multimedia Cluster

Powerpoint presentations:

• Erik W. Jacobsen, Value Creation in Clustered Industries

• Alison Munro, Experiences of the Food and Drink Cluster

• IMEC Flanders: The Largest Independent Microelectronics Research Centre of Europe

• ICT Clusters in Flanders

Steering group meeting, 18 February 2000, Vienna

Minutes of the meeting

Kick-off workshop, 4 October 1999, Paris

Minutes of the meeting

Contributions by participants:

• Progress Report by Pim den Hertog

Related papers

• Gunilla Almqvist, Lennart Norgren and Anne-Christine Strandell (study carried out at NUTEK), Clusters and Cluster Policy in Sweden

• Hessel Verbeek (doctoral thesis), Innovative Clusters: Identification of Value-adding Production Chains and their Networks of Innovation . An International Study.

See also the results of Phase II

• Publication: Boosting Innovation: The Cluster Approach

• Reports and documents