NDLI: Configuration in the flesh: challenges in publicly promoted clusters

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Author	Hermans, Julie Castiaux, Annick Dejardin, Marcus Lucas, Stéphane
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	In this article, we study how the configuration of a publicly promoted clusters policy—the Global Clusters policy initiated by the Walloon Government in Belgium—influenced the behaviors of R&D practitioners. At first, we explored the background of the Global Cluster policy in an effort to make the program configuration visible. This first step was conducted through the gathering and analysis of data from official documents as well as publications, conference speeches and workshops produced by policy makers, evaluators and their academic collaborators. Then, we observed the transmission of the six resulting features from the policy level to the project level: we studied their appropriation by R&D practitioners in “Mirage”, an R&D project associated to the mechanical engineering Global Cluster. As a result, we show that the particularities of Walloon Global Clusters make them a powerful instrument to enhance collateral assets while facing potential lock-in. We finally consider the way these Global Clusters should evolve to favor the exploitation of the emerged outcomes while exploring future opportunities. A good balance between exploitation and exploration as well as adequate networking and clustering instruments to support both objectives appear necessary to ensure sustainability and growth of the involved actors.
Starting Page	609
Ending Page	630
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08929912
Journal	The Journal of Technology Transfer
Volume Number	37
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15737047
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-11-16
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Innovation network Cluster Managing innovation Policy evaluation Regional development Economic Growth Innovation/Technology Management Management/Business for Professionals Industrial Organization Commercial Law Business/Management Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business and International Management Accounting Engineering

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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