Promoting Regional Business Clusters in the Balkans

Regional business clusters (RBCs) in Western Balkans are scarce and institutional support for national clusters is very limited . Any existing clusters in the region are the outcome of external donors’ policies rather than genuine local initiatives; they have very limited government support although they are national in character and nature; awareness of clustering advantages is very low, even for their members. In other words, they are underdeveloped, while good practices are missing due to the fact that they are rather new initiatives without precedents.