The two thousand European clusters are highly heterogeneous. Some of them can be described as ecosystems, that is, as geographic concentrations of businesses and research centres in a particular field of activity – we may call these "area clusters". They have the ability to generate innovation and need to be monitored by the higher end of the value chain (infrastructures, cooperation tools, financial tools, etc.).

The others are more like alliances of businesses and research centres coordinated by a management team, with the goal to set up a complete value chain in a growth market – they may be called "power clusters". They have the capacity to work out and implement a strategic vision and need to be monitored by the lower end of the chain, i.e. by the market and customer services.

The emergence of world-class European clusters lies in the art of reconciling and superimposing these two approaches so as to meet challenges appearing on a global scale.


The Innostrada Innovation Competence Cluster has been founded in 2007, with the 27 participation of company / organization in Hungary

The Innostrada Cluster aims to organize the otherwise isolated market actors (firms, organizations, SME-s, other businesses) of the innovation value chain to a well-organized, cooperative cluster formation.