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Evaluation of Cluster Initiatives
Articles
The structure of cluster knowledge networks
This is a 2005 paper by Elisa Giuliani, of the Freeman Centre, University of Sussex.
European clusters
This article by Christian Ketels, Harvard Business school looks at European clusters.
Hard measures and soft issues: a potential model for incorporating metrics into cluster based analys
This paper was developed for the 4th Annual Innovation Systems Research Network meeting held in Ottawa, Canada in May, 2003.
Is Liquid Crystal Optics Manufacturing a US Microcluster?
This 1999 paper discusses the idea whether Liquid Crystal (LC)Optics Manufacturing is a US microcluster.
Discovering Regional Competitive Advantage: Massachusetts High-Tech
A report which analyses the success of the region of Massachusetts trying to penetrate the region's surpsrising resilience and better understand regional specialization, growth and decline.
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.
Files
- Hervey Gibson, Lyon 2006: Mélange, ou repas a quatre plats?
- C1 Gibson Mélange.pdf
- Harald Furre, Lyon 2006: Baseline study - Norwegian Centers of Expertise
- C2 Harre.pdf
- Klaus Haasis, Lyon 2006: Evaluation of Cluster Initiative Performance
- C2 Khaasis.pdf
- Shannon Townsend, Lyon 2006: NRC's Evaluation of its Technology Cluster Initiatives - Evolving Approaches and Methodologies
- C2 Townsend.pdf
- Erin Cassidy, Lyon 2006: NRC's Technology Cluster Initiatives - Evaluation and Policy Impact
- C3 Cassidy.pdf
- Madeline Smith, Lyon 2006: Priority Industries Evaluation - Business Environment Mapping
- C3MSmithScotent.pdf
- A report on the Finnish wood and forest industry cluster and European benchmarking study.
- Finnish wood-forest cluster.pdf
- Xavier Ferràs, Lyon 2006: Cluster Policy in Catalonia.
- \G1 XFerras.pdf
- Graham Sibthorpe - Analytical Models to Assess Clusters: Benchmarks and Spider Diagrams for Cluster Comparisons; Ottawa 2004
- GSibthorpe-benchmark_spiderdiagram.pdf
- Philip Cooke- Benchmarking International Best Practices in High Performing Clusters
- PCooke-benchmarking.pdf
Links
- Clustering under the spotlight in Taiwan
- Paper and article on cluster theory, using the case of the concentration of computer and related activities in Taiwan. The paper discusses clustering as a help for small and medium enterprises to climb the value chain.
www.id21.org/society/s7cck1g1.html - Does local co-operation matter?: Evidence from industrial clusters in South Asia and Latin America
- Paper to order, presented at the International Research Conference: Business in Development: local companies between social embeddednes and globalization on November 18-19, 1999. Author: Hubert Schmitz.
blds.ids.ac.uk/cf/opaccf/detailed.cfm?RN=210000 - Enterprise growth initiatives - where now? what next?
- Summary of study "Enterprise Growth Initiatives; Strategic Directions and Options"
www.dai.com/daideas/pdf/daideas/DAIdeas_Vol_1_No_1.pdf - Envirolink Northwest Ltd
- Envirolink Northwest exists to promote, strengthen and support the environmental technologies and services sector in England's Northwest. Three environmental technology and services (ETS)companies and the largest university in the region are working with three major companies from each of the following sectors chemicals, food and paper manufacturing to help them to identify alternative uses for thier unavoidable waste streams.
http://www.envirolinknorthwest.co.uk/ - European Clusters
- Report by Christian Ketels, Harvard Business School. Discusses new evidence on clusters in Europe and recent efforts to integrate the cluster perspective into European economic policy thinking. The article concludes with thoughts on how the current efforts can be made more effective in increasing competitiveness.
www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/Ketels_European_Clusters_2004.pdf - Farming the World Wide Web: cultivating online networks in Wales
- Paper examining the possiblities to maximize the benefits for ICT in agro-food SME's in rural Wales
www.glam.ac.uk/bus/Research/ResUnits/WEI/wei/Publications/WP_PDFs/Working%20Paper%2034.pdf - Implementation of cluster development
- Structure and analysis of Bangalore Machine Tool cluster
www.imtma.org/cluster/Ch5.htm - IT revolution in Asia
- An analysis of the IT success in Asia
www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/offrep/eap/eapprem/infofuruta.pdf - Swedish Clusters
- A cluster analysis of the Swedish economy by Goran Lindqvist, Anders Malmberg and Orjan Solvell at CIND, Uppsala University, in cooperation with Michael E. Porter, using the methodology developed at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness for the Cluster Mapping Project.
http://www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/Swedish_Clusters_(Feb_2003).pdf - The Development of the cluster concept: present experiences and further developments
- Report by Christian Ketels.
www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/Frontiers_of_Cluster_Research_2003.11.23.pdf - The industrial symbiosis ofKalundborg
- Symbiosis means co-existence between diverse organisms in which each may benefit from the other. In this context, the term is applied about the industrial co-operation taking place in Kalundborg between a number of companies and Kalundborg Municipality, all of which exploit each otherís residual or by-products mutually.
The Symbiosis co-operation has developed spontaneously over a number of decades and today comprises some 20 projects. The exchange of residual products between the companies is laid out in the diagram.
- All projects are environmentally and financially sustainable.
www.symbiosis.dk/
