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Competitive Regional Clusters

National Policy Approaches

In today’s globalising world, the regional specialisations built up over decades are transforming rapidly. Many regions that were historically production centres in a given sector are losing out to lower-cost locations and reorienting to higher value-added niches. National programmes to promote cluster-based approaches -- linking firms, people and knowledge at a regional level -- are being used to meet the challenge. This report analyses the objectives, targeting, instruments and inter-governmental role sharing used by 26 programmes in 14 OECD countries. It will be of interest to policy makers, researchers, firms and others active in promoting innovation and competitiveness.

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Publication Date :: 30 May 2007
DOI :: 10.1787/9789264031838-en

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Where Do the Programmes Originate?

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Authors:: OECD


Pages :: 39–69
DOI :: 10.1787/9789264031838-5-en

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This chapter explores the origins of the numerous policies with a cluster-based approach, either implicit or explicit. It reviews the nature of shifting priorities in regional policy, science and technology (S&T)/ innovation policy and industrial/enterprise policy that all lead to such policies. It then illustrates how case study programmes fit into these policy frameworks. Finally, it considers how the objectives of these programmes are converging across policy streams and changing over time.

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