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Year 5 / No. 13 / 2009

CLUSTERS: REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH EFFICIENCY

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A Tool for Strategic Change in Organizations

An Incentive to Local Competitiveness

IN MEMORIAM. EDUARDO BALLARÍN

Peer, colleague and friend

Pioneer, friend and partner

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CLUSTERS: REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH EFFICIENCY

Editorial

By Pedro Videla

A Tool for Strategic Change in Organizations

By Emiliano Duch
Cluster initiatives are a tool for grouping companies facing the same issues and helping them define their strategies for the future. To achieve this, several questions need to be asked: Which business models should the companies adopt? What is missing in their value system that impedes them from achieving this? In this article, In this article, we analyze how these initiatives can become a tool to foster strategic change in organizations.

An Incentive to Local Competitiveness

By Antoni Subirà
Clusters appear naturally without the need for outside intervention. Many governments, however, use them as a way of promoting competitiveness. This type of intervention is not necessarily negative, but can distort the true essence of a cluster, which is nothing other than the increase of competitiveness gained through synergies generated by co-localization.

IN MEMORIAM. EDUARDO BALLARÍN

Peer, colleague and friend

By Josep Faus
When somebody who we valued and to whom we owe a great deal leaves us, it is very difficult to fill the gap they leave behind. IESE asked me to write a brief article about Eduardo Ballarín, who passed away unexpectedly at the zenith of his professional career. I shall try.

Pioneer, friend and partner

By Emiliano Duch and Michael E. Porter
Eduard Ballarin was a not only a friend, but a key ally in disseminating new ideas that have now become mainstream. He advanced strategic thinking in Spain and helped introduce cluster based economic development, starting with “microclusters” in Catalonia and later leading European efforts to promote cluster excellence.

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