Reports and Studies

In this section you will find studies and reports on cluster related topics.

Articles

Hong Kong improves its competitiveness ranking

Hong Kong has jumped from fourth to second place in the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, a leading league table of the world's most competitive economies. The first place spot continues to be held by the United States.

Knowledge, Technology, and Cluster-Based Growth in Africa - a paper from the Worldbank

Just recently the World Bank published a new report on cluster activities in Africa, showing the potential fo economic growth in the region through the right use of knowledge, human capital and technology.

Local clusters, innovation systems and sustained competitiveness

This 2000 paper was presented by Lynn Mytelka and Fulvia Farinelli at the meeting on "Local Productive Clusters and Innovation Systems in Brazil".

Market and inustry analysis on the Finnish wood and forest industry

This is a market and industry analysis and a European benchmarking study on the Finnish wood and forest cluster. This sector includes 4,800 Finnish companies and 345,000 enterprises in Europe.

Networks of Competence in Germany with International Perspectives

Kompetenznetze is a website arising from an initiative from the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education. Among descriptions of the different fields of competence in Germany it contains a section on international networks in 10 other countries like Finland, Canada, Austria or Japan.

New reports about innovation at kompetenznetze

The German management office kompetenznetze.de, in cooperation with the The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Invest in Germany, recently published four innovation reports on German networks of competence.

NGA publication on Cluster-Based Strategies for Growing State Economies

As one of a series of publications produced under the Innovation America initiative, the new National Governor's Association's Innovation America guide by Dr. Stuart Rosenfeld (president of Regional Technology Strategies, Inc.) examines what cluster strategies work best in a changing and challenging global economy.

North Dakota's smart prairie strategy

This is a report by the New Economy Initiative program - a public/private initiative coordinated by the Greater North Dakota Association. The New Economy has been set up in order to aid North Dakotans succesfully manage growth and change.

Potential Competitiveness of Russian industries

This paper, published in 2000 by several students of the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy in Helsinki, is aimed to be a preliminary identification of the basic industrial sectors in St. Petersburg that could serve as a basis for further competitive clusters formation.

Potential to Network Innovative Clusters in the Baltic Metropole Regions

This is the final report on the Baltic Metropolises Innovation Strategy Project (BaltMet Inno), a joint innovation project
of the capital cities in the Baltic Sea Region. The project aims at strengthening the role of cities as developers of innovation environments at local, regional, national and international levels.

Files

A paper on the development of the cluster concept, including present experiences and further developments.: ketels-clusterconcept developments2003.pdf
A report on "Regional policy in the regions" which compares the regions of selected European countries: Denmark, France, England and Belguim: nlands-report.pdf
Christian Ketels, Göran Lindqvist and Örjan Sölvell, Lyon 2006 - Cluster Initiatives Around the World: Preliminary Findings from Greenbook II.: PLE 5 Christian KETELS.pdf
European Union: Report - Regional Clusters in Europe, 2003 (english): smes_observatory_2002_report3_en.pdf
European Union: Report - Cluster regionale en Europe (French): smes_observatory_2002_report3_fr.pdf
UK cluster report - Forward and Executive Summary: UK-cluster-map.pdf
UK clusters:performances, policies, emergent issues: Ukcluster-report2001-chapter3.pdf
UK cluster report - East: UKEasterncluster.pdf
UK cluster report - East Midlands: UKEastmidlandscluster.pdf
UK cluster report - London: UkLondoncluster.pdf