Authors: Leena Aarikka-Stenroos; Mads Bruun Ingstrup; Nillo Halonen
Cluster facilitators aim to foster and support collaboration and knowledge-sharing amongst cluster actors from industry, academia and government. However, this task is difficult since the institutional logics of these actors differ and are sometimes conflicting. To address this challenge and offer a way forward, this paper identifies and classifies the barriers and drivers that arise from this diversity of logics and shape the role of cluster facilitators. The theoretical background of the paper is based on insights into cluster facilitation and institutional logics, and the empirical context centres on a circular economy cluster from Finland. In line with this, the paper concludes that cluster facilitators must deal with four major types of barriers and drivers: 1) barriers and drivers originating from one actor, 2) barriers and drivers that concern one actor group, 3) barriers and drivers arising from interaction between two actor groups, and finally 4) barriers and drivers relating to all actor groups in the same cluster context.
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Publish Year: 2018
Conference: Marseille, France (2018)