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Regional Clusters in Europe
A report by the Observatory of European SME's. The Observatory was set up in order to improve monitoring of the economic performance of SME's in Europe.
This report by the Observatory provides an overview of the current SME sector in Europe through statistics on the number of enterprises, on total employment and on the production by size of enterprise.
The report covers 19 countries: the 15 countries of the the EU in 2002, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
The report breaks down into 4 main questions:
This report is available to dowload in English or in French .
The report covers 19 countries: the 15 countries of the the EU in 2002, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
The report breaks down into 4 main questions:
- What is meant by concepts like regional clusters and regional innovation systems? What are the mechanisms underpinning dynamism, competitiveness and stagnation in regional clusters?
- How important are regional clusters in the economy of Europe?
- What characterises regional clusters in Europe and what are the main tendencies in the clusters?
- Why and how should economic development policy and regional policy take into account the phenomenom of geographical clustering? What are good practice policies tareting (different types) of clusters?
This report is available to dowload in English or in French .
Attached files
- Observatory Report on regional clusters in Europe in English
- smes_observatory_2002_report3_en.pdf (303.27 KB)
- Observatory Report on regional clusters in Europe in French
- smes_observatory_2002_report3_fr.pdf (600.87 KB)
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