3. 3
COLLABORATING TO IMPROVE PRACTICE
• A forum for learning collectively around common, complex & important
cluster evaluation challenges
– Meeting twice a year since 2013
– Brought together over 100 people
– Mix of academics, policy-makers, practitioners
www.tci-network.org/evaluation
Evidencing the value of cluster
policy is only part of the question
The bigger issue is how we can use
evaluation to learn and do things better
4. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Workshop
Forres
TCI
Conference
Kolding
TCI
Conference
Monterrey
TCI
Conference
Eindhoven
Workshop
Belfast
Workshop
Rzeszow
Workshop
Barcelona
TCI
Conference
Daegu
Workshop
Oslo
TCI
Conference
Bogota
2018
Workshop
Cork
TCI
Conference
Toronto
A long-run journey of collective learning
2019
Workshop
Malmö
5. SOME KEY OUTPUTS
• Booklet on Designing Cluster Evaluation (2014)
• Perfect cluster evaluation framework (2016)
• Principles to guide cluster evaluation (2016)
• Set of firm-level survey questions aimed at capturing the
human element of clusters (2016)
• Poster & short paper presented at OECD Blue Sky Forum
(2016)
• Conference presentations (2018 - THC, RSA)
• Evaluation Cases
• Journal articles….
• Collected together on website:
www.tci-network.org/evaluation
6. Emerging themes for exploration
and evaluation learning
• How can we use data more creatively?
• How can we build a compelling case story?
• How can these inform policy and leadership?
7. Discussion and Group Sharing
1. Two groups – one focusing on data, one on
case stories
2. Data – using Vinnväxt cluster data as an
example
• interrogate the data
• How could that feed into evaluation evidence and
policy development
• What analysis needed and any gaps?
3. Case stories for learning – using Scotland
Food and Drink as an example
• Quiz the evaluator
• Gather the pieces of the story
• Assemble into a narrative
8. Group Discussion
• How do data and case studies cross over?
• Informing leadership and policy
• How can cluster leaders use this evidence?
• How can this influence policy?
• How to best communicate success
9. WG progress and plans
• Ongoing working group activities and outputs
• Website, social media and newsletter updates
• Conferences – Kazan 2020
• Evaluation WG meeting 2020 in Italy
• Evaluation WG meeting 2021 in Wales
10. Thank you
James Wilson
Research Director
Orkestra
Deusto Business School
jwilson@orkestra.deusto.es
Madeline Smith
Head of Strategy,
Innovation School
The Glasgow School of Art
m.smith@gsa.ac.uk
Emily Wise
Affiliated Research Fellow
Research Policy Group
Lund University
emily.wise@fsi.lu.se