A cluster
A cluster
Definition offered by M. Porter, Harvard Business School
"A geographically strong concentration of businesses and associated players interconnected to a certain extent, which includes manufacturers, services, subcontractors, universities and associations."
The cluster's three pillars are:
>> Industry
>> Research
>> Education
Indeed, bringing together within one cluster all industrial, scientific and training players active in the same region ensures:
- a source of innovation : proximity stimulates the flow of information and competencies and thus facilitates the emergence of projects of a more innovating nature,
- a source of attractiveness : the concentration of players in the same region raises the international profile,
- a brake to delocalising : competitiveness is linked to the way businesses are anchored in their region due to the local presence of useful competencies and partners.