Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects

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dc.contributor.authorWilson, James Ralph
dc.contributor.authorWise, Emily
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Madeline
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-03T09:06:00Z
dc.date.available2025-06-03T09:06:00Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-21
dc.date.updated2025-06-03T09:06:00Z
dc.description.abstractRegions around the world employ cluster-based policies as part of their industrial, innovation and development policy mixes. They have become a key tool in smart specialisation strategies and are increasingly used to address societal challenges. Given their popularity and longevity, there is significant demand to better measure and understand the impacts of cluster policies. Yet the diversity of cluster policies employed in different regional competitiveness policy mixes, a complex effect logic and a variety of (mostly intangible) outcomes, and few recognised norms for guiding cluster policy evaluation all hamper a more holistic understanding of their patterns of effects and broader impacts. There lacks a common frame to guide cluster policy evaluation. This paper reviews international evidence on the effects of cluster policy programmes from academic and policy literature, which is then used as an input into a co-creation process with groups of cluster policymakers, practitioners and researchers. The result is a proposal for a generalised framework of effects for cluster policies to support the structuring of cluster policy evaluations and strengthen international policy learning possibilities.en
dc.description.sponsorshipBasque Government Department of the Presidency and Department of Education, Language Policy, and Culture (IT885-16) and from Vinnova – weden’s Innovation Agency [project grant number 2017-05265]en
dc.identifier.citationWilson, J., Wise, E., & Smith, M. (2022). Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects. Policy Sciences, 55(2), 369-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11077-022-09460-8
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/S11077-022-09460-8
dc.identifier.eissn1573-0891
dc.identifier.issn0032-2687
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2912
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2022
dc.subject.otherCluster policy
dc.subject.otherCluster policy evaluation
dc.subject.otherCo-creation
dc.subject.otherPolicy learning
dc.titleEvidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effectsen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage391
oaire.citation.issue2
oaire.citation.startPage369
oaire.citation.titlePolicy Sciences
oaire.citation.volume55
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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