Conference
English
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Abstract
International audience This explorative study aims at appraising the relationship between clusters’ internal structures and pipeline-building practices. We adopt a knowledge-centred perspective on clusters and investigate whether clusters’ structural diversity explains external (knowledge) collaborative strategies. Our analysis focuses on the 71 French Competitiveness cluster. First, thanks to data analysis techniques, we identify 4 ideal types of clusters according to their internal characteristics. We then pinpoint variety in clusters’ relational behaviours using network analysis. In a final step, we confront internal characteristics and the relational patterns of French clusters. Our results show that clusters’ internal configurations are associated with specific external collaborative strategies.