Cluster Management Guide – Guidelines for the Development and Management of Cluster Initiatives
Cluster initiatives facilitate and accelerate innovations and then bring them to market maturity, thus ensuring the longterm, economic success of the companies involved. They represent an efficient instrument for the concentration of resources and funding, the achievement of critical dimensions and the guaranteeing of the dissemination of knowledge and expertise, which represent factors strengthening both locations and the economy on a sustained basis.
Therefore, it is especially important that clusters also establish international networking, and that they act as a bridge-head in the promotion of regional and cross-border cooperation.
Upper Austria began the successful implementation of a cluster-oriented innovation policy in 1998, and has ever since cooperated with other innovative regions. In particular, Upper Austria shows excellent progress in the areas of cluster formation and further development. As a result, our federal ter initiative competence – a position which guarantees clear advantages for both business and industry.
This Cluster Management Guide is the first document to define the most important steps for the installation of a cluster initiative. The Guide shows how a cluster can be successfully established, financed and expanded. Best practice examples from the CLOE regions clarify this process further. In this way, Upper Austria has put its experience at the service of other regions and has thus made an important contribution to the success of the CLOE project.
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