Cluster evaluation in Catalonia Marta Marsé Vidri, Acció TCI Cluster Evaluation Workshop, Barcelona, 19-20 May 2016
Cluster evaluation in Catalonia
Marta Marsé Vidri, Acció
TCI Cluster Evaluation Workshop, Barcelona, 19-20 May 2016
Cluster evaluation in CataloniaTCI Evaluation Group MeetingBarcelona, 19th may 2016
Marta Marsé VidriCluster Analysis ManagerAcció
More than 20 years of Cluster Policy in Catalonia
Main objectives to start the cluster evaluation project in 2015
We’ve had a cluster policy for 20 years. Mature.
The international context is developing evaluation tools
Initiatives and articles on the subject are emerging.
TCI Network evaluation group
Evaluate the performance of the clusters that are currently in
“Programa Catalonia Clusters”.
Evaluate the work we do with clusters in ACCIÓ
Compare cluster companyies to non cluster Companies
2012: Internal workgroup
2014: International Benchmarking (Scandinavian with Emily Wise)
2015 - 2016:Cluster
evaluation project in Catalonia
Cluster evaluation in Catalonia: precedents and attempts
2008: Anoia’s knitwear case study. Internal
Gathered data and experiences Includes 3 clusters case of those
older than 10 year Peer Review with 3 International
experts through TCI Network call Editing in process
International benchmarking Questionnaire created with qualitative and
quantitative indicators at: Cluster Level (29 questions) Firm Level (14 questions)
Focus grup with Cluster Managers Tool implementation in 2016
Balance (sheet) of the last ten years in cluster policy
2005-2014
Creation of an annual evaluation tool
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Cluster Policy Evaluation project in Catalonia 2015-2016. Summary
2
What have we done to capture the value of cluster policy
What happened in Catalonia with the cluster work from 2005 to 2014?
14 inputs list in the Balance document
Cluster Policy Anual Evaluation tool: objectives
Assess the performance of clústers belonging to Catalonia Clusters Program
Assess the work with clústers developped from Accio and Update productes and programs
Assess clusters impact on companie’s strategy and competitiveness
Compare cluster firm’s preformance to non cluster firm’s performance through a control group
Developped in an internal workshop
Cluster Policy Anual Evaluation tool : 2 questionnaires
Cluster Managers
questionnaire
29 questions
Firms questionnaire:
17questions
1 2
Cluster Policy Anual Evaluation tool : Questionnaire’s structure
Descriptive dataStructure and fundingProjects and activities
Visibility(...)
Impact, perception and results dataStrategic change
SatisfactionNew business opportunitiesNew companyies or agents
Value of clustering on firm relations and competitiveness (...)
Online Anual Evaluation tool for Cluster Managers
Example of quantitative qüestions in the platform
Online Anual Evaluation tool for firms
Example of qualitative
qüestions in the platform
CM level: Already launched. Expected report on the 1st week of june
Firm level: will be launched on june 2016Results expected on setembre 2016
We don’t have results yet
Focusing to challenges:How to capture the benefit of clustering? And what to capture?
Benefits of great trust and collaboration
Process of change: How this happened Final
outcome.The effect
Challenges encountered. New inputs for evaluation
1. The human element: difficulties to evaluate it. Will never be possible to quantify all its effects but it is relevant to accept its existance
2. The macro impact approach: New perspectives of competitiveness
Challenges: 1. The Human Element
Challenges: 1. The Human Element
The Human element
Possibilities to capture it?
EngagementsLinkagesInteractionCollaborationTrustCooperationBridge-BuildingBuilding relationships
Challenges: 1. The Human Element
Qualitative qüestions + Not linking one specific cause to a consequence
Interview with strategic reflection
Networking events
Strategic immersion
Strategic change of a company
Launching of a new
product of a company
Export collaboration between two
companies
Project between
two companies
Increase in the
company profits
Study presentation
A cluster, a system
Not everything can be quantified with numbers: The intangibles.
Challenges: 1. The Human Element
Clusters are ecosystems that allow larger velocity in tacit knowledge flow
Networking with all the value
chain
Strategic, competitiveness
trendsdissemination
Larger results dissemination
Collaborative projects
Big possibilities to find partners
Companies are not self suficient, their exit is affected by environment structures around them: systemic approach
Challenges: 1. The Human Element
Challenges: 2. The Macro Impact approach
Indicators about cluster impact at other levels?
Source: own
1.Wider impact
2. Beyond GDP indicator: social + ecological aspectsWell-being: New paradigm
GDP
Social
Environmental
Beyond GDP Well-Being
Possibilities to measure the cluster impact on new dimensions of competitiveness
Towards a Well-being evaluation
Source: Own elaboration
Challenges: 2. The Macro Impact approach
Challenges: 2. The Macro Impact approach
Possibilities to measure the cluster impact on new dimensions of competitiveness
Source: Christian Ketels: “Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy”, Working paper, 89 UE, february 2015
What is the role of clusters in the new orientation of growth and competitiveness?
Challenges: 2. The Macro Impact approach
Possibilities to measure the cluster impact on new dimensions of competitiveness
Source: Christian Ketels: “Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy”, Working paper, 89 UE, february 2015
Need to offer new products and services that meet these emerging needs
Which is the impact of the use of clusters and the practices of cluster-based economic development on the transition for the New Growth path?
In which ways the “beyond GDP objectives” are being integrated into the corrent practice of cluster-based economic development efforts? Which would be the key factors) (Systemic changes, collaborative efforts by private-public groups, etc.)
Use of cluster-based economic development tools as instrument to achieve “beyond-GDP objectives”.
Possibilities to measure the cluster impact on new dimensions of competitiveness
Challenges: 2. The Macro Impact approach