1. MOC Network Cluster Research Workshop
Harvard Business School, Hawes 102, Dec 12, 2010
Chairs: Torger Reve and Christian Ketels
Coffee will be available outside of Hawes 102 from 8:30
9.00 – 12.00: Cluster research
Format: 15min presentation plus 10 min discussion per paper; 15 min breaks
after papers 2 and 4
1. Torger Reve; BI Norwegian School of Management, Norway:
“From industrial clusters to global knowledge hubs”
2. Amir Sasson; BI Norwegian School of Management, Norway:
“Measuring global knowledge hub attractiveness”
3. Adrian T.H. Kuah & Eleanor Doyle; Nottingham Business School, UK:
“Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness in Small Economic
Nations”
4. Philippe Gugler & Xavier Tinguely; University of Fribourg, Switzerland:
“Clusters and the Geography of innovation in a Globalized Economy:
Evidence from patent data in Switzerland”
5. Franz Toedtling; Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria:
“Knowledge Sourcing and innovation in Austrian ICT companies: Does
geography matter?”
6. Scott Stern, MIT, MA; Mercedes Delgado, Temple University, PA :
“Clusters and Entrepreneurship”
12.00 – 13.00: Lunch
Individual at Spangler on the HBS campus

2. 13.00 – 14.00: Guest lecture
Format: 30min presentation followed by discussion of paper and linkages
between MOC research and other lines of cluster research
• Juan Alcacer, Harvard Business School
14.00 – 16.00: Cluster policy research
Format: 15min presentation plus 10 min discussion per paper; 20 min break
after paper 8
7. Burke Murphy & Lee W. Munnich; University of Minnesota, USA:
“Minnesota’s Workforce Investment and Competitiveness Strategy”
8. Matthias Kiese; University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland,
Switzerland: “A European Proposal for Comparative Cluster Policy
Research”
9. Runolf Smari Steinthorsson, University of Iceland, Iceland:
“Iceland ‐ In Search of a Path for Competitiveness”
10.Christian Ketels, Harvard Business School:
“European Cluster Policy: An Update”
16.00 – 17.00: Discussion – Joint research opportunities in the MOC network
Moderated by Torger Reve and Christian Ketels