2. Growth, inclusion and clusters
• Why are some nations/regions more successful than others?
• Surprising answers by Acemoglu/Robinson (2012). They
distinguish between
• Inclusive economic and political institutions:
• flourishing of human talent and the search for self-
improvement
• permit persons to use their talents, to let them exploit
productivity improvements and allocate the fruits of such efforts
to these persons, promote development
• Extractive economic and political institutions:
• elite extract all the surplus and
• create disincentives to invest into education, training
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3. Participation and consensung finding 2.0
• Inclusion is the main principle behind cbased
• Crowdsourcing documents
large scale insourcing of dispersed knowledge
• Finding consensus
• Social innovation
Voting session on issues of the Cluster Manifesto
Talk about Cluster Manifesto and the process behind
• Last chance to register
www.cbased.com
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4. Participation and consensung finding 2.0
• Inclusion is the main principle behind cbased
• Crowdsourcing documents
large scale insourcing of dispersed knowledge
• Finding consensus
• Social innovation
Voting session on issues of the Cluster Manifesto
Talk about Cluster Manifesto and the process behind
• Last chance to register
www.cbased.com
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6. Cluster Manifesto
• Spread the word about the cluster strategies and initiatives
which are an outcome of the conference
• European cluster policies are at a cross road now
First gneration of cluster activities managed at European level is
aobut to be finished
2nd generation which is represented by the measures in the
Cluster Manifesto is just around the corner
• Here is what the discussion looked like
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