Reportresultsquestionnairetemplate1-Collabor8.ppt

Conclusions Cluster-working: Working with clusters is important, but young Impact of Collabor8 on cluster-working is high: 23 of 40 clusters Availability of quality- and eco-awards is low, but under development Hospitality is the most prolific sector, followed by Local food and Recreation. Importance of Local food is decreasing Conclusions Results and difficulties of cluster working: Lack of good monitoring Lack of quantitative or qualitative figures Lack of confidence between entrepreneurs and government Collabor8-partners are all governmental Only 14% of clusters = self managed Thanks to: Sirka Lüdtke, Ghent University, for elaborating the template Jan Van den Berghe, SPK, for handling the data and making the report Andrew Claire Gray, ERA 21, for feed-back You, for giving the data Personally I do not have any merit * Sharing experiences and practices across transnational regions Objectives of questionnaire Facilitation of transfer of knowledge, ideas, good practice and examples (WP1) Sharing and dissemination of good practice (WP2) Sharing marketing promotion techniques (WP3) Evidence of research and transnational working 3 themes Benchmarking Cluster organisation and development Cluster promotion and marketing Method See document BenchmarkingImpact of clusters for rural economy Cluster working is important: Existance of Strategic documents Data collection BenchmarkingImpact of clusters for rural economy Data collection All regions have one or more systems One partner: 5 different systems Quality is rather low ? Possibilities for improvement (data collection) BenchmarkingTypology of cluster groups 40 cluster groups in total Between 2 and 10 clusters per region Cluster working is a rather young phenomenon 700 entrepreneurs are member of a cluster 23 of the 40 groups = a result of Collabor8 4 of the 8 partners started with clusters within Collabor8 BenchmarkingTypology of cluster groups BenchmarkingTypology of cluster groups Collabor8 clusters (new clus