By Christian Ketels, presented at the 19th TCI Global Conference, Eindhoven, 2016

1. Titel presentatie
[Naam, organisatienaam]
Summit Day – Scientist forum on Smart Specialisation related to clusters
Christian Ketels
What Drives Prosperity?

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What Drives Prosperity?
What you
have inherited
What you
have created
How
prosperous
you are
How well
you do it
What
you do

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Implications for Policy Action
• Many things matter; there is no silver bullet
• What matters most depends on what you already have
• Every location is different, but all adhere to the same economic principles
and dynamics
WHAT
HOW
• You can’t change everything at once, even if all has to change eventually
• Success is driven by your unique strengths, not just by the weaknesses
you have removed
• Change requires action by many

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Cluster-Based Economic Development
• Diagnostics
• Strategy
• Delivery
• Collective Action
Leveraging clusters,
not creating clusters

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Challenges
1. Strengthening strengths we (now) know how to do, developing
them less so
2. Existing data on clusters insufficiently align with the realities of
cluster dynamics
3. Cluster efforts too often a new silo rather than an integrative
approach across policy areas