Analysis of Business Support Infrastructure in the Republic of Serbia
Author
Union of Hellenic Chambers of Commerce ERDF PP6
Description
This report is the outcome of a detailed research on business support infrastructure in the Republic of Serbia, conducted in September and October 2011. The analysis was carried out with financial support from the National Agency for Regional Development, as a part of project tasks from the agency’s Annual Plan for 2011.
This paper addresses the phenomena of clusters of firms and inter-firm networks, the competitive
advantages that can derive from membership thereof, and the definition of public policy towards both.
These organisational forms and related policies are considered in the context of the increasing international
integration of markets for goods, services, capital and labour. Different perspectives are presented,
reflecting economic analysis of what policy should entail as well as the insights of practitioners concerned
with the daily implementation of policy.
Cluster analysis & cluster-based policy in OECD countries
Author
Union of Hellenic Chambers of Commerce ERDF PP6
Description
This report contributes to the second phase of the OECD National Systems of
Innovation (NSI) Project . The first phase of the NSI-project particularly looked into
measuring and assessing the “knowledge distribution power” of systems of innovation
at the national level.In the second phase of the OECD-NSI project various focus groups were formed to
conduct in-depth studies of particular aspects of the innovation systems.
The Greenbook on cluster initiatives presents data from over 250 CIs around the world, based on the Global Cluster Initiative Survey 2003 and a series of case studies.
This paper fills this
dual gap in the abundant research on leadership on the one hand and on networks/clusters on
the other by investigating leadership in four prominent photonics clusters in England,
Scotland, Germany and the United States. Apart from giving an insight into the variety and
patterns of leadership practices observed in these clusters, the paper addresses the dilemma
that regional innovation systems such as clusters usually have a critical need of some kind of
leadership, but that neither individual nor organizational actors wish to be led.
