Competitive regional clusters : national policy approaches.

Description

In today's globalizing world, the regional specializations built up over decades are transforming rapidly. Many regions that were historically production centers in a given sector are losing out to lower-cost locations and reorienting to higher value-added niches. National programs to promote cluster-based approaches - linking firms, people and knowledge at a regional level - are being used to meet the challenge. This report analyzes the objectives, targeting, instruments and inter-governmental role sharing used by 26 programs in 14 OECD countries.--Publisher's description.  Read more... Vsebuje tudi: pt. 1. Synthesis report. Why are cluster policies popular, again? -- Where do the programmes originate? -- How do programmes pick participants? -- What instruments do they use and how? -- Who does what? governance -- What have we learned? -- pt. 2. Case studies. Canada -- Czech Republic -- Finland -- France -- Germany -- Italy -- Japan -- Korea -- Netherlands -- Norway -- Spain : the Basque country -- Sweden -- United Kingdom -- United States : Georgia -- United States : Oregon.