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Public Procurement - Guidance for practitioners

As clusters are looking for a possibility to use public procurement for innovation, this guide may be useful in understanding the mechanism of public procurement – and especially with European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). Following on the great success of the first edition with more than 70,000 downloads, DG REGIO is particularly happy to present the new and updated version of the Public Procurement - Guidance for practitioners on the avoidance of the most common errors in projects funded by the European Structural and Investment Funds. This improved document takes into account the...
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  • Mar 30, 2018
  • alina danielescu

Cluster Management Excellence in the Danube region

ESCA , the European Sercretariat for Cluster Analysis has just released the study Cluster Management Excellence in the Danube region, dedicated to the current status of cluster management excellence in Europe, authored by Helmut Kergel, Dr. Gerd Meier zu Köcker, Michael Nerger and Dr. Oliver Ziegler. The study aims at contributing to the currently ongoing efforts made within ECEI II project to update and further streamline the Cluster Management Excellence and Labelling approach, as well as shading light on the current landscape within the Danube region, while illustrating the similarities...
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  • Mar 13, 2018
  • alina danielescu

EU Publications: A Guide to EU Funding (2017 edition)

In response to the evolution of the world economy and its impact on Europe, the European Commission proposed a set of programmes to boost jobs, growth and investment across the European Union. The programmes are part of the multiannual financial framework 2014-2020. This publication guides you through these programmes and describes the funding opportunities they offer. Detailed information is available on the European Commission’s website. The publication is intended to familiarize the reader with the EU funding field and contains information on types of funding, eligibility , rules and...
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  • Jan 03, 2018
  • codruta marginean

Summary of the report “Lithuanian Clusterization 2017”

Lithuanian Clusters Association presents the report “Lithuanian Clusterization Study 2017”, prepared by the Research Institute for Changes (RICh), within the project "Promotion and development of Innovation Networking - InoLink" (project no 01.2.1.-LVPA-V-842-01- 0002). The aim of the study is to identify the potential and possibilities of the enterprises to join the clusters and foster maturity of existing clusters in the market; to identify the most viable sectors for clusterization; to define and predict clusterization trends and prospects; to assess the clusters’ abilities to enter...
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  • Dec 18, 2017
  • alina danielescu

RSRS paper on the Basque cluster policy

The Regional Studies Association open access Journal, Region Studies, Regional Science, has published a recent paper on "Basque Country cluster policy: the road of 25 years" written by Anastasiia Konstantynova, researcher at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness. The paper looks at how cluster policy, particularly its management part can contribute to the processes of switching path dependency and escaping lock-ins in the old industrial regions. Based on the experience of the Basque cluster policy it rediscovers and stresses the importance of agile policy capacity to internal knowledge...
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  • May 21, 2017
  • alina danielescu

New EaP PLUS Report: Review of the state of development of clusters in EaP countries

The EAP PLUS project has published a new report entitled "Review of the state of development of clusters in EaP countries" on 9 March 2017. The objective of the report is to review the state of development of clusters in EaP countries, and to help strengthen clusters in EaP countries by transferring the EU’s good practices, and facilitating susbtainable inter-cluster cooperation between EU and EaP countries’ existing or emerging clusters. The report includes a quantitative and qualitative knowledge review of existing clusters or emerging cluster initiatives in EaP countries, a knowledge...
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  • Mar 20, 2017
  • morgane.vl

Cluster Collaboration and Business Support Tools to Facilitate Entrepreneurship, Cross-sectoral Collaboration and Growth

'The report on cluster collaboration and business support tools to facilitate entrepreneurship, crosssectoral collaboration and growth (attached) is mainly addressed to cluster managers interested in providing tailor- made and demand-oriented support services to cluster participants, mainly medium-sized companies. Industrial transformation and the development of emerging industries are key challenges for medium-sized enterprises. The nature of innovations and how they are emerging is continuously changing. Cluster organisations can play a decisive role for the development of new industrial...
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  • Mar 17, 2017
  • alina danielescu

Cluster-based local economic development in the context of RIS3

We would like to introduce a recent paper inspired by the inputs and discussions taken at the 2nd InFocus thematic workshop “Cluster-based local economic development in the context of RIS3”, Frankfurt, November 23-25, 2016. The author, Miguel Rivas, explored issues related to Clusters and cluster policy as a main delivery tool in smart specialisation strategies Making “related variety” work From clusters of activities to clusters of competences City-making clusters On the role of cities in cluster development The whole paper is available for download here.
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  • Jan 23, 2017
  • alina danielescu

STRATEGIC INTERNATIONALISATION - A Tool For Clusters

Within the BSR Stars a new tool for cluster internationalisation was launched at the 4th Cluster Matchmaking Conference in Warsaw 19-20 September 2016. The tool builds on different clusters experiences with internationalization and focus on the importance of having a strategy for further professionalisation of the internationalisation of clusters. The tool is available in the attachment. For further information please contact Merete Daniel Nielsen from Cluster Excellence Denmark ( //--> )...
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  • Sep 28, 2016
  • Lucia Seel

"Structural Transformation in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS)"

Based on a book published in 2015 by the Oxford University Press on "Structural Change and Industrial Development in BRICS", the United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) has recently released a paper analyzing the structural transformation in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Structural transformation is a source of higher productivity growth and per capita income and it would reduce countries' vulnerability to poverty and external shocks by achieving greater diversity in terms of economic structure...
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  • Jun 27, 2016
  • alina danielescu

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