The Whitebook views policymakers as an endogenous part of the setup shaping conditions for clusters and underlines that their attitudes and competencies cannot be taken for granted. Governance strategists should be aware of the deficiencies and limitations in policymaking. At the same time, it is argued that policies should be designed with a view to promote learning and a sensible division of labour.
What are the main impediments to the adoption of more favourable policy approaches? How can processes of policy learning best be organised, implemented? Who should do what to secure orderly processes? Which policy instruments should be banned, restricted, and how? Important that policymakers are informed in ways that allow them to understand the conditions for clustering, the role of private sector actors? Which are the best measures, private-public partnership? Increased mobility of competencies between the public and private spheres? Should institutional experimentation and pluralism be strived for?
Which are the most frequent, or the costliest, mistakes made by various kinds of authorities and how could they be counteracted? To what extent should policy frameworks try to protect against small frequent or large singular errors?
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