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dc.titleThe Impact Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs: Methods and Practices
dc.contributor.authorBoneu, Franco
dc.contributor.authorAlfaro Serrano, David
dc.contributor.authorMaffioli, Alessandro
dc.contributor.authorPietrobelli, Carlo
dc.contributor.authorStucchi, Rodolfo
dc.contributor.authorCasaburi, Gabriel
dc.contributor.authorCastillo, Victoria
dc.contributor.authorFigal Garone, Lucas
dc.contributor.authorGiuliani, Elisa
dc.contributor.authorGiuliodori, David
dc.contributor.authorMatta, Andrés
dc.contributor.authorPittaluga, Lucía
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez, Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorRojo, Sofía
dc.contributor.editorMaffioli, Alessandro
dc.contributor.editorStucchi, Rodolfo
dc.contributor.editorPietrobelli, Carlo
dc.contributor.orgunitCompetitiveness and Innovation Division
dc.coverageArgentina
dc.coverageBrazil
dc.coverageChile
dc.coverageUruguay
dc.coverageLatin America
dc.date.available2016-05-03T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2016-05-02T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractDo cluster development programs work? Do they fundamentally encourage the essential inter-firm linkages and coordination? Do they lead to innovation and productivity, enterprise development, larger employment, and export growth, and if so, after how long? Do other firms benefit from these programs? This book offers insight into quantitative methods that help answer these questions. Cluster development is a form of modern industrial policy that is spreading across the world to help exploit the externalities emerging from geographical agglomeration and inter-firm coordination. Therefore, rigorous impact evaluations are necessary because they help policymakers understand better ways to design future programs and provide accountability for public resources. The chapters argue that enterprise clusters and the programs to support them are diverse and multidimensional processes that require a variety of instruments to be fully understood and assessed. The book as a whole gathers various methodological essays and quantitative tests of complementary tools and approaches, emphasizing their usefulness and effectiveness in coordination with one another. Most importantly, it asserts that policy evaluation is crucial, in particular when it comes to cluster development programs, to ensure the best use of public resources, the accountability of beneficiaries, and most of all to feed the necessary learning to improve the design and implementation of public policies for enterprise development.
dc.format.extent218
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-59782-254-1
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/The-Impact-Evaluation-of-Cluster-Development-Programs-Methods-and-Practices.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectCluster Development
dc.subjectBusiness Competitiveness
dc.subjectImpact Evaluation
dc.subjectIndustrial Cluster
dc.subjectBusiness Development
dc.subjectBusiness Productivity
dc.subjectAgglomeration Economy
dc.subject.jelcodeD22 - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
dc.subject.jelcodeH43 - Project Evaluation • Social Discount Rate
dc.subject.jelcodeL25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
dc.subject.jelcodeL26 - Entrepreneurship
dc.subject.jelcodeO12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
dc.subject.jelcodeO22 - Project Analysis
dc.subject.jelcodeO25 - Industrial Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeO29 - Development Planning and Policy: Other
dc.subject.jelcodeO54 - Latin America • Caribbean
dc.subject.jelcodeR10 - General Regional Economics: General
dc.subject.jelcodeZ13 - Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Social and Economic Stratification
dc.subject.keywordsproductivity;industrial policy;spillovers;Chile;coordination;social network analysis;Argentina;Uruguay;randomized control trials;Brazil;case studies;Inter-American Development Bank;development programs;innovation;impact evaluation;agglomeration economies;cluster development programs;policy evaluation
idb.identifier.pubnumberBooks
idb.operationRG-T1861
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