ABSTRACT
The cluster-based approach, first proposed by Porter, has had undeniable success. Initially developed as a tool of entrepreneurial growth, it is now the basis of many industrial and local systems policies and is used as a development tool by the OECD (2005) and the World Bank (2002). The amount of literature devoted to this subject is enormous and has given rise to much debate about good practices, policies of technology transfer, of development of both human and natural local resources (see for example Karlsson, et al. 2005, or Dunning 2000). Clusters are everywhere.
