Dividend Policy and Dividend Decision Theories.pptx
TCI 2015 Clusters for Competitiveness: Mobilizing the Power of Modern Cluster Policy
1. Clusters for Competitiveness:
Mobilizing the Power of
Modern Cluster Policy
Christian Ketels
Opening Session: New Direction of Cluster Policy in a Creative Economy
2. 2015 TCI Conference
Clusters for Competitiveness:
Mobilizing the Power of Modern Cluster Policy
Dr Christian H. M. Ketels
Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School
President, TCI Network
rafmozart@terra.com.br
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• Clusters emerge naturally • Clusters emerge and develop in a
context deeply affected by policy
choices
• Collaboration within clusters
provides benefits but requires
purposeful collective action
• Policies for upgrading business
environment conditions can be
more effective if they are cluster-
specific but require information
sharing and collective action
• Cluster-based policies enable
informed decision making and
collective action
What role for policy?
Path dependency – intertemporal spill-overs
Increase the importance of wedge between public and private returns on current private action
Might be different discount rates for private and public actors
Path dependency – intertemporal spill-overs
Increase the importance of wedge between public and private returns on current private action
Might be different discount rates for private and public actors
Path dependency – intertemporal spill-overs
Increase the importance of wedge between public and private returns on current private action
Might be different discount rates for private and public actors
Path dependency – intertemporal spill-overs
Increase the importance of wedge between public and private returns on current private action
Might be different discount rates for private and public actors