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An appraisal of the European Cluster Observatory

Crawley, Andrew

An appraisal of the European Cluster Observatory created by Andrew Crawley and David Pickernell - European Urban and Regional Studies Volume 19, number 2 .

This paper considers the work of the European Cluster Observatory (ECO) in light of current debates around the notion of clusters. Examining the definitions employed by the ECO, questions are posed about how effective policy can be when using highly restrictive means of analysis. Further, the work contends that, far from this being purely an analytical problem, there also exists a fundamental semantic issue regarding the term ‘economic cluster’.

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