5. Clusters
• Enough resources and competences amass
and reach a critical threshold;
• Giving it a key position in a given economic
branch of activity;
• With a decisive sustainable competitive
advantage over other places, or even a
world supremacy in that field.
6. Clusters
• Enough resources and competences amass
and reach a critical threshold;
• Giving it a key position in a given economic
branch of activity;
• With a decisive sustainable competitive
advantage over other places, or even a
world supremacy in that field.
"There are no low-tech industries,
only low-tech firms"
16. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions
17. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
1
research education other regions
18. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
2 national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
1
research education other regions
19. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
2 national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
3 Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
1
research education other regions
20. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
2 national
policy
4
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
3 Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
1
research education other regions
21. regional socio-economic & cultural context
5
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
2 national
policy
4
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
3 Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
1
research education other regions
22. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions
23. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions
24. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions
25. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions
26. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions
27. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions
28. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions
29. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions
30. regional socio-economic & cultural context
(inter)national
knowledge usage
context
customers suppliers
national
innovation system
industry
partners competitors
national
policy
exchange knowledge &
policy
people European
Union
knowledge development
international
organisations
knowledge
labour market
exchange
research education other regions