Cluster Collaboration and Business Support Tools to Facilitate Entrepreneurship, Crosssectoral Collaboration and Growth

The report is mainly addressed to cluster managers interested in providing tailor-made and demand-oriented support services to cluster participants, mainly medium-sized companies. It is also relevant for policy-makers and local stakeholders interested in seeing “their” clusters taking over a stronger role in promoting regional structural change and industrial modernisation. The report explains why cluster services are that important for the overall success of regional cluster policies, how the best innovative services can be identified and what are key success factors for implementation. The report reveals many examples of cluster services that can be used or adopted by interested cluster organisations. The report pays dedicated attention to clusters operating in emerging industries where traditional cluster services alone may not be sufficient anymore.