2013-09, Bürkler, Erich

What is needed for a public-private -partnership to achieve economic innovation? Common interests, sufficient resources, trust and objective oriented behaviour seem to be critical success factors - although they are not sufficient conditions leading to innovation success.

2011-03, Bürkler, Erich, Rastrick, Karyn, Rodrigues, Mark

Clustering related organisations often results in better and more specialised suppliers, information spill-overs between companies, stronger labour pools and more creative competition between neighbours. The agro cluster in Hamilton NZ got generous public funding at the start but suffered from a lack of trust between public organisations and also with some private participants. Therefore it was stopped after the public funding expired.