Articles by CSC staff

• Christian Ketels and Olga Memedovic, "From Clusters to Cluster-based Economic Development", International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development 2008, Vol.1, No.3, pp.375-392.
• Göran Lindqvist and Karl Wennberg, ”The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms”, Small Business Economics, (electronic version of article published on-line 6 June 2008).
• Christian Ketels and Michael E. Porter, "Russian Competitiveness at the Crossroads", With Michael E. Porter, in: Vedomosti, 26. 11. 2007 (in Russian)(English translation on the ISC website).
• Christian Ketels, "Norway's role in the global economy of the 21st century--key policy issues", article prepared for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo, 2007.
• Christian Ketels, "Was sind Cluster? Antworten aus der Wissenschaft", in Treibhäuser der Innovation, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Essen: 2007.
• Christian Ketels with Michael E. Porter and Mercedes Delgado-Garcia, "The Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity: Findings from the Business Competitiveness Index," in Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008, Palgrave Macmillan, London: 2007.
• Christian Ketels, "The Role of Clusters in the Chemical Industry", prepared for the Annual Conference of the European Petrochemical Association EPCA, Brussels: October 2007.
• Christian Ketels, "Industrial Policy in the United States", Journal of Industry, Competition, and Trade, Vol. 3-4, No. 7, December 2007.
• Christian Ketels, "Michael Porter’s Competitiveness Framework—Recent Learnings and New Research Priorities" in the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Volume 6, Number 2, June 2006, pp. 115-136.  
   

Reports by CSC staff

• Örjan Sölvell, Clusters: Balancing Evolutionary and Constructive Forces (aka: The Redbook), October 2008.
• Christian Ketels, The Nordic Globalization Barometer 2008: Global Pressure-Nordic Solutions? Nordic Council of Ministers 2008.
• Christian Ketels, State of the Region Report 2007.
• Christian Ketels and Örjan Sölvell, State of the Region Report 2006.
• Christian Ketels and Örjan Sölvell, Clusters in the EU-10 New Member Countries.
• Christian Ketels, Göran Lindqvist and Örjan Sölvell, Cluster Initiatives in Developing and Transition Economies, May 2006.
• Christian Ketels, Göran Lindqvist and Örjan Sölvell, The Cluster Initiative Greenbook (in English).
• The Cluster Initative Greenbook (in Czech)--temporarily removed.
• Christian Ketels et.al., State of the Region Report 2005.
• Örjan Sölvell, Kluster och den nya näringspolitiken (in Swedish) 2004.
• Örjan Sölvell, The Multi-Home Based Multinational - Paper presented at the Symposium in honour of John Stopford, London, 16-18 June 2002. 
   

Presentations by CSC staff

• See Örjan Sölvell's slides for the Regional Programme of Innovative Actions (RPIA) seminar "Lisbon 2010: Challenges for European Regional Innovation Strategies" at Pamplona on 20-21 November 2008.
• See the slides for Örjan Sölvell's presentation at the 4th Competitiveness Clusters Forum at Sophia Antipolis, France on 13-14 November 2008.
• See Örjan Sölvell's presentation from the 11th Annual TCI Conference in Cape Town, South Africa 27-31 October 2008.
• See Örjan Sölvell's slides from the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week 15-18 October 2008.
• See Örjan Sölvell's slides from the SLIM-project seminar in Gävle 9 October 2008.
• See the slides by Christian Ketels with the results for Sweden from the Global Competitiveness Report 2007.
• See the slides for the seminar by Örjan Sölvell and Göran Lindqvist from CSC & IIB at Stanford (Scancor) on the topic "Why is EU Competitiveness Lagging? Comparing Geographical Specialization Patterns of Industrial Activity Across Cluster Categories", October 2007. 
• See Örjan Sölvell's presentation entitled "Four Dimensions of Clusters & Cluster Policy" for the lecture in the National PhD Course "Research Frontiers in Contemporary Economic Geography" at Uppsala University, August 2007.
• See Örjan Sölvell's keynote presentation "Clusters and international competitiveness" for the conference on "Clusters Linked over Europe--Regional Innovation Strategies for Cluster Internationalisation and Competitiveness" held in Tartu, Estonia, April 2007.
• See Örjan Sölvell's keynote presentation "Regionerna och globaliseringen" held at the Swedbank conference "Vårt ekonomiska läge 2007", in Globen arena, Stockholm, March 2007 (in Swedish).
• Örjan Sölvell's presentation for the Stockholm-Uppsala University Network (SUUN), "Forskningsklustret Stockholm-Uppsala i ett europeiskt perspektiv", March 2007 (in Swedish, co-authored with Göran Lindqvist and Sergiy Protsiv).
• See Christian Ketels' presentation at the Handelshochschule Leipzig about Regional Competitiveness as a video (in German), February 2007.
• See Christian Ketels' presentation entitled "Strengths and Weaknesses in the Baltic Sea Region", presented at the seminar on "Mutual and Common Identity in the Central Baltic Region", at Espoo, Finland, December 2006.
• EIBA 2006 presentation: Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness and International Business--Christian Ketels
• EIBA 2006 presentation: Cluster Initiatives: A survey of collaborative organisations turning clusters into policy--Göran Lindqvist
• EIBA 2006 presentation: European Competitiveness and Clusters-A framework--Örjan Sölvell
• Clusters in the EU-10 New Member Countries--Christian Ketels, Örjan Sölvell
• Cluster Analysis Mapping--Örjan Sölvell
• ScanBalt Competence Region: Creating Value between Biotech Clusters
• Cluster Mapping in Europe and the United States
• Multinational Corporations and Clusters - Prof Örjan Sölvell  

CSC in the media

• See the article in the NWT 18 November 2008 which mentions the Paper Province as an example of a successful cluster evolution, as used in Örjan Sölvell's latest book Clusters: Balancing Evolutionary and Constructive Forces (article in Swedish).
• See the article in the E-news of the European Commission Enterprise & Industry, 17 October 2008, where a Commission communication cites the need to among others, further develop the European Cluster Observatory into a full-fledged service for clusters and innovative enterprises.
• See the article where Robin Teigland's research on informal networks is cited, and where she offers career strategies for women in Metro 23 September 2008 (in Swedish).
• See Örjan Sölvell in the one-hour telecast by the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce on 10 September 2008 "C2C: From Clusters to Competitiveness—Propelling Regional Strategies for Success in the Worldwide Marketplace" together with Professor Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School and other American cluster experts.
• See the article in the Financial Times Deutschland supplement on Nordrhein-Westfalen for 27 August 2008 where Christian Ketels is cited (in German).
• Read the article by Örjan Sölvell and Mats Williams, "The Paper Province är en stor förebild" in the NWT 4 June 2008 (in Swedish), download as .pdf or see the website.
• Read the article "Kul i Norden" published on Realtid.se on 11 April 2008 where Christian Ketels is cited (in Swedish).
• Read the Financial Times article 10 April 2008 on the Nordic Globalization Forum held at Riksgränsen, Sweden where Christian Ketels is cited.
• Read an article in Voice of America 7 March 2008 where Christian Ketels is cited.
• Read an article where Christian Ketels is interviewed in the French CI Commerce International, February 2008 (in English or French).
• Read an article in Svenska Dagbladet interviewing Michael E. Porter on clusters and innovations on 28 January 2008 (in Swedish).
• Read an article citing Christian Ketels in Die Süddeutsche Zeitung of 24 January 2008 on the attractiveness of China and India for German companies (in German).
• Read an article in Ugebrevet Mandag Morgen published 21 January 2008 where Christian Ketels is cited (in Danish).
• Read an article in Russia Today 23 November 2007 where Christian Ketels is quoted regarding the state of the Russian economy which remains uncompetitive despite the progress in the past few years.
• Listen to an interview with Christian Ketels which summarises the key findings of the State of the Region Report 2007.
• See the online version of NYCVE Italian American Magazine, May 2007, where Christian Ketels is cited at length on the link between successful clusters and academia.
• Read the article by Günter Verheugen, Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, in the Baltic Rim Economies 31.10.2007, Bimonthly Review 5, 2007, with comments on the European Cluster Observatory.
• See articles in the Swedish media and Christian Ketels' comments on the Swedish rankings after the World Economic Forum's 31 October 2007 launch of the Global Competitiveness Report 2007. Dagens Industri, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish).
• See an article on the Invest in Sweden Agency's webpages on the Karlstad Paper Province and Örjan Sölvell's research.
• See an article published in nwt.se on the Papermakers' Night in Karlstad, Sweden, where Örjan Sölvell gave a presentation at the paper industry's annual meeting on 4 October 2007 (in Swedish).
• See an article by Christian Ketels in the German magazine RATIO, "Cluster und Clusterpolitik: Wege zu mehr Wettbewerbsfähigkeit" ["Cluster and Cluster Policy: Ways to achieve higher competitiveness"].
• See an article where Christian Ketels is cited, published by The Monday Morning Weekly, 11 June 2007, Denmark (in Danish)
• See the European Voice article on "Local focus for European innovation", 31 May-6 June 2007, where Örjan Sölvell is cited.
• See the press release of Christian Ketels' presentation at the Handelshochschule Leipzig about Regional Competitiveness, February 2007 (in German).
• Listen to Christian Ketels in a podcast (in German) at an event organised by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.
• Christian Ketels' article in the Baltic Rim Economies Bimonthly Economic Monitoring Review 5/2006
• Christian Ketels interviewed at the 8th Annual Baltic Development Forum, Helsinki, Finland, 29-31 October 2006
• Svenska Dagbladet 28/09/2006 - Christian Ketels says Swedish competitiveness is first class, but that improvements are needed for the country to continue being top-ranked, in his presentation of the Swedish results from The Global Competitiveness Report (in Swedish)
• Baltic Times 12/07/2006 - Christian Ketels advocates effective government regulations for the Baltic region
• Dagens Industri 08/02/2006 - Opinion editorial by Örjan Sövell (in Swedish)
• Dragon News 04/2005 - The Swedish Chamber of Commerce in China and Hong Kong magazine
• The St. Petersburg Times 29/12/2005 Storm Clouds Gathering Over Baltic
• Swedish TV4 News 28/09/05. Christian Ketels presents the Global Competitiveness Report 2005

Other reports with contributions by CSC staff 

• See the final report on Automotive Clustering in Europe (ed. Gerrit Stratmann and Gergana Dimitrova) 2008, with a preface by Christian Ketels.
• See the final report by the European Commission's DG Enterprise and Industry Experts Group on Service Innovation in Europe, "Fostering Innovation in Services", March 2007. Professor Örjan Sölvell was a member of the Experts Group.