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This month we have shared key ECCP news for our clusters community, including European Commission updates on SMEs’ resilience plus important events taking place across Europe and the latest open calls.

This year the European Commission's annual report on SMEs focuses on digitalisation, recovery, the COVID-19 pandemic and sustainability.

The ECCP's June edition of the Quarterly Newsletter 2021, including updates on the EU recovery, green transition, open calls and key events.

The overall aim of this study was to gather evidence to determine whether the effectiveness of the delivery of public innovation support in Europe for SMEs has improved since a consultation in 2009.

The May edition of the ECCP newsletter captures the highlights of the previous month, including updates direct from the ECCP community, events, open calls and publications.

In 2020, the environment in which clusters operated changed fundamentally. In February 2020, the Economic Outlook of the European Union predicted a slow, yet steady economic growth driven by demand. However, COVID-19 and the consequent health crisis presented unparalleled societal and economic challenges for European clusters, causing new service needs of cluster members as well as a drastic...

In 2018, Canada’s five ‘Superclusters’ were announced, with a five-year government investment of $950 million, to be matched by private sector investment.

These clusters were conceived as areas of targeted business activity comprised of large and small companies, non-profits, academic institutions, and accelerators that work collaboratively to boost innovation and growth in a specific sector.

As with companies in any economic sector, cosmetics firms have much to gain from early protection of their Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).

Registering IP with Chinese authorities and customs before beginning any type of business activity in the country could potentially save SMEs a lot of money, as being able to build strong cases against any local firms which may try to steal their IP is...

The purpose of this work is to develop a methodology to assess and monitor cluster structures. The authors’ proposed method assesses the level of cluster structure development by considering cluster transformation analysis in the information and communication sectors of the regional economy, prerequisites for cluster formation, and the current level of digital cluster development in the region.