The impact of enterprises’ participation in clusters and innovation networks

The analysis shows that the Danish clusters and innovation networks have a substantial, positive impact on enterprises’ innovation competencies, i.e., relevant knowledge, methods and ideas, among others. Furthermore, clusters are highly successful in linking up enterprises, knowledge institutions and other organisations in new and innovative constellations that result in commercial value creation and innovative solutions.

The analysis is based on a survey among 4,000 enterprises, of which 883 respondet, representing 42 different innovation networks and clusters.