Smart Guide to cluster policy monitoring and evaluation

This Smart Guide is addressed to policy makers and cluster managers engaged in cluster policy making
who are interested in monitoring and evaluating the impact of their policies. The objective is to provide
them with easy access to knowledge material of high practical value and sound methodological
underpinnings, available in a concise and easy to read manner. It thus complements the Smart Guide
Cluster Policy published by the European Commission (2016)1 that had already advocated monitoring
and evaluation as a strategic tool for the implementation of cluster policies and programmes.