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<strong>The</strong> weight <strong>of</strong> the variables <strong>of</strong> cluster performance<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Seaport</strong> <strong>Clusters</strong><br />

21. Indicate the importance <strong>of</strong> four classes <strong>of</strong> variables for the performance <strong>of</strong> the LMPC, by<br />

ranking them from 1 (most important class <strong>of</strong> variables) to 4 (least important class <strong>of</strong> variables).<br />

Classes <strong>of</strong> variables Rank<br />

<strong>The</strong> structure <strong>of</strong> the port cluster<br />

<strong>The</strong> governance <strong>of</strong> the port cluster<br />

General economic development<br />

National and international policies<br />

22. Indicate the importance <strong>of</strong> 10 ‘cluster structure variables’ for the performance <strong>of</strong> the LMPC, by<br />

ranking from 1 to 10, where 1 is the most important variable and 10 the least important variable.<br />

Cluster structure variables Rank<br />

<strong>The</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> a labor force<br />

<strong>The</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> customers and suppliers<br />

<strong>The</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> knowledge spillovers<br />

<strong>The</strong> level <strong>of</strong> land prices and <strong>of</strong>fice rents<br />

<strong>The</strong> level <strong>of</strong> congestion<br />

<strong>The</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> internal competition in the port cluster<br />

<strong>The</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> cluster entry barriers<br />

<strong>The</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> cluster exit barriers<br />

<strong>The</strong> diversity <strong>of</strong> the cluster population<br />

<strong>The</strong> diversity <strong>of</strong> the resource base <strong>of</strong> the cluster<br />

23. Indicate the importance <strong>of</strong> each <strong>of</strong> the ‘cluster governance variables’, for the performance <strong>of</strong> the<br />

LMPC, by ranking them from 1 (most important variable) to 4 (least important variable).<br />

Cluster governance variables Rank<br />

<strong>The</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> trust<br />

<strong>The</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> intermediaries<br />

<strong>The</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> embedded leader firms<br />

<strong>The</strong> quality <strong>of</strong> solutions to the collective action problems

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