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When Firms Take the Lead in Facilitating Clusters

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  • Mads Bruun Ingstrup

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This paper focuses on the role of lead firms and their efforts to facilitate the development of clusters. Several clusters are known for the location of the lead firms that create and shape them, for example, by increasing their skill base, attracting suppliers and creating entrepreneurial activity. However, the literature suffers from insufficient dialogue on the role of lead firms as facilitators of clusters and on how the developmental differences in clusters affect the facilitation performed, and thus the benefits delivered, by lead firms. A key question then is how does the facilitation by lead firms differ in a top-down cluster from that in a bottom-up cluster? The paper is based on a comparative case study investigating the facilitating role of a lead firm within two clusters: Medicon Valley (top-down) and Mechatronics Cluster Denmark (bottom-up). The main conclusion reached is that lead firms in top-down clusters and in bottom-up clusters contribute with quite similar and overlapping cluster benefits, but the way in which these benefits are delivered differs greatly.

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  • Mads Bruun Ingstrup, 2014. "When Firms Take the Lead in Facilitating Clusters," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(9), pages 1902-1918, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:22:y:2014:i:9:p:1902-1918
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2013.812064
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