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The role of cluster facilitators

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  • Mads Bruun Ingstrup

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Clusters are everywhere. Companies join clusters in order to profit from a number of benefits. However, these benefits do not come spontaneously. It takes time to build the platform and trust necessary to foster these advantages, and in this process, the cluster facilitator plays an important role. This paper shows that the role of cluster facilitators is highly neglected in cluster and management literature and that there is no existing framework for describing and analysing this particular role. At worst, this can lead to incorrect, simple generalisations regarding cluster facilitators and the context in which they act. Based on a literature review and a case study, the purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for identifying and categorising the specific role of cluster facilitators.

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  • Mads Bruun Ingstrup, 2010. "The role of cluster facilitators," International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(1), pages 25-40.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgsbu:v:4:y:2010:i:1:p:25-40
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    1. Vlaisavljevic, Vesna & Medina, Carmen Cabello & Van Looy, Bart, 2020. "The role of policies and the contribution of cluster agency in the development of biotech open innovation ecosystem," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
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    4. Marzena Frankowska, 2020. "Multidimensional analysis of embeddedness and cooperation in a cluster – a literature and empirical study," Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, Fundacja Upowszechniająca Wiedzę i Naukę "Cognitione", vol. 16(3), pages 11-46.
    5. Véronique Préchoux, 2013. "Can top-down cluster policies give birth to team players? The emergence of a French competitiveness cluster," Post-Print hal-04571402, HAL.
    6. Ingstrup, Mads Bruun, 2013. "Facilitating Different Types of Clusters," management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 24(2), pages 133-150.
    7. Véronique Préchoux, 2014. "The construction process of a cluster: reimagining, rethinking and reshaping the cluster to adapt to new problems," Post-Print hal-04571412, HAL.
    8. Brita Hermelin & Hans Rämö, 2017. "Intermediary activities and agendas of regional cleantech networks in Sweden," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(1), pages 130-146, February.

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