9. Local (not clustered) The ”cluster sector” represents about 1/3 of all employment About 65% of employment Cluster category 1 About 35%of employment Cluster category 2 Lindqvist, SIW/ECO, Brussels, 11 May 2010 4
10. About 250 NUTS-2 regions About 500 industries, 38 cluster categories Lindqvist, SIW/ECO, Brussels, 11 May 2010 5
14. The need for data ”The signartories…callupon the European institutions…tocontinue the development of neutral information on clusters, regional innnovationcapacity, cluster policies and the impact of cluster policies” European Cluster Memorandum, 2008 Lindqvist, SIW/ECO, Brussels, 11 May 2010 9
15. Lindqvist, SIW/ECO, Brussels, 11 May 2010 10 Is European data available? Collected? Costly? Accessible? Data search for NUTS-2 regions and 4-digit NACE industries carried out March-May 2010
16. Contact Göran Lindqvist, PhD Center for Strategy and Competitiveness Stocholm School of Economics www.sse.edu/csc goran.lindqvist@hhs.se +46 8 7369524 Lindqvist, SIW/ECO, Brussels, 11 May 2010 11
18. Concentration: the tendency of firms to co-locate with firms of the same industrymore than with firms in general Urbanisation: the tendency of firms to co-locate with firms of any industrymore than firms in general do Clusters Ref: Lindqvist (2009) “Disentangling Clusters” Lindqvist, SIW/ECO, Brussels, 11 May 2010 13
21. Concentrated The urban-rural shift swine farmers 1 km egg farmers meat wholesalers 1 km 5 km security brokers 1 km 25 km 1 km 1 km 125 km agricultural wholesalers non-life insurance Dispersed Rural Urban Ref: Lindqvist (2009) “Disentangling Clusters” 16 Lindqvist, SIW/ECO, Brussels, 11 May 2010