Europe INNOVA - Partnerships for better innovation support

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Sydow J., Lerch F., Huxham Ch., Hibbert, P. (2007) Developing Photonics Clusters, Commonalities, Contrasts and Contradictions, Berlin.
The aim of the report is to provide insight in more depth about developmental aspects of clusters in the photonics industry and to contribute to the exploration of innovative high technology clusters in different countries.

Ketels Ch., Sölvell Ö. (2006) Innovation clusters in the 10 new member states of the European Union, Brussels.
This report presents a stematic mapping and analysis of regional clusters across the EU-10. It uses a classification system that allocates employment to four broad sectors of the economy, and, within one of them, the cluster sector, to 38 cluster categories.

Regional Clusters in Europe, Observatory of European SMEs 2002, No. 3
The report of the Observatory provides an overview of the current situation in the SME sector in Europe through statistics on the number of enterprises, on total employment and on production by size of enterprise. In addition, the Observatory reports cover a range of thematic issues.

IRE subgroup ‘Regional clustering and networking as innovation drivers’ (2003) Design of cluster initiatives - An overview of policies and praxis in Europe
The report summaries the main messages and conclusions of a number of recent studies and reports on clusters, cluster initiatives and the development of clusters.

European Trend Chart on Innovation (2003) Thematic Report Cluster Policies.
The report sets out to identify general trends within the activities of the EU Member States and accession countries in the field of cluster policy as part of the Trend Chart. It builds on other reports that examined what type of cluster policies are used, what role they play in innovation policy and how they are designed.

Schwanitz S., Müller R., Will M. (2003) Competitiveness of Economic Sectors in EU Association and Accession Countries: Cluster-Oriented Assistance Strategies, Eschborn.
This study evaluates the instruments used to analyze the competitiveness of individual economic sectors, both with a view to identifying cluster structures and also to developing cluster-oriented assistance strategies as a possible concept for the enhancement of the competitiveness of economic sectors.

Do's and don'ts for biotech cluster development: the results of NetBioCluE

This report summarizes the results of Europe INNOVA project NetBioClue having identified and validated good practices in biotech clusters' support and provided key messages to stakeholders and policy makers to help biotech clusters development through a bottom-up approach.