¿La política industrial de cluster/redes mejora realmente la competitividad empresarial? Resultados de la evaluación de dos experiencias en la Comunidad Autónoma de Euskadi

Driven in part by the desire to maximize the use of public resources in policy assistance, interest in developing and testing new methodological approaches to evaluate such industrial policies has been steadily rising. This interest is even higher in policies devised through clusters and networks where, in general, there has been a lack of evaluation, mainly because of the difficulties in defining the object to be evaluated. We will contrast our method in two cases: the first one is a cluster association in the Basque Country, the second case is Ezagutza Gunea, for qualification and knowledge management integrated by seventeen agents and launched by the municipalities of Azkoitia and Azpeitia.