Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
survey; expert interviews; focus
groups
business assns. focus on
protecting cluster industries not
growth. Early part of stage
focused on standardization;
building best practices
agreement; marketing remains
strong
decline it should ensure this information is shared with cluster
organizations and that they are incentivized to plan for regeneration.
3. Promotion of entrepreneurship should continue and focus on
creation of growth companies, incubation, & workshops. Heavy
incentives should be provided to induce larger companies to form
spinoffs and outsource them to regional incubators/accelerators.
Maintain non-productive entrepreneurship support
Networking
Cooperation
Density and complexity of
business/industry networks;
number of foreign firms and
FDI (inbound and outbound);
social network analysis
I-O Analysis; cluster/industry
survey; expert interviews; focus
groups
Social-business networks
evolved into highly complex
supporting structures; internal
sourcing is highly evolved;
cluster companies and
organizations increasingly
involved in external networks.
Cross industry flows well
developed and highly integrated
across multiple industry
segments (regional I-O Table);
in latter part of this stage the
region is focused on
maintaining the cluster and its
markets; business/cluster
related organizations involved
in maintaining the cluster and
its markets
