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B. Cluster Policy: A Guide to the State of Debate Christian Ketels, Harvard Business School 1. Introduction There is an increasing interest in the role of economic geography in explaining differences inprosperitylevelsacrosslocations(WorldBank,2009;Spenceetal.,2009).Different str<strong>and</strong>s of theacademicliteraturehavecontributedtothisdebate.TheNewEconomicGeography approachappliesmodelswithincreasingreturns<strong>and</strong>mobilefactorstoexplaintheemergence of regions with different density of economic activity (Royal Swedish Academy of Science, 2008). Theworkonclusters(Porter,2008)breaksthisanalysisdowntothelevelofregional agglomerations of companies, research institutions, government agencies, <strong>and</strong> others in a specific area of business activity related through various knowledge <strong>and</strong> economic linkages. Other relatedapproacheshavelookedatregionalinnovationsystems(Cookeet al., 1997), industrial districts (Becattini, 1990; Porter/Ketels, 2009), <strong>and</strong> locations home to a ’creative class’ (Florida, 2003). But while there is widespread agreement that ’geography matters’, there is little consensus on whetherthereisacaseforpolicy.Argumentsaremadefor(Porter,2008)<strong>and</strong>against (Duranton, 2007); some authors acknowledge the theoretical case for intervention (Norman/Venables, 2004) but point out the complex implementation issues that render success unlikely(Venables,2008).Inthemeantime,practitionershavemadetheirchoice <strong>and</strong>especiallycluster-basedeconomicpolicieshavebecomewidelyused(Borras/Tsagdis, 2008; Oxford Research, 2008; Yusuf et al., 2008;Zeng,2008;Davies,2006;Pietrobelli/ Rabelotti, 2006; Freser, 2005). Thisarticlediscussesthecurrentstateoftheacademicdebateonclusterpolicy.Itfirstreviews the findings on the relationship between the presence of clusters <strong>and</strong> economic outcomes, putting clustersintothecontextofothergeographic<strong>and</strong>non-geographicfactorsaffecting prosperity differences across locations. It then reviews the work on the emergence <strong>and</strong> evolution ofclusters,atopicparticularlyimportantforpolicythatultimatelyaimstochange thetrajectoryofsuchpaths’.Thesecondpartofthearticleaddressestheissueofclusterpolicy. Itsetsoutbypresentingthebasictheoreticalargumentforclusterpolicy.Itthendiscusses twoopposing underst<strong>and</strong>ings of how cluster policy should be conducted. Their different underlying definitions of what cluster policy is, it is then argued, are at the core of the different opinionsabouttheuseofclusterpolicy.Afinalsectionthendiscussesissuesofimplementation thathaveacrucial influence on whether <strong>and</strong> when cluster policy is beneficial <strong>and</strong> how large these benefits might become. ANNEX: CLUSTERS AND COMPETITIVENESS: FLORENCE, BOSTON, BARCELONA 129
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