Cooperate with the best clusters worldwide

International cluster monitoring - a new service of Kooperation international

Kooperation international, the German Federal Ministry's of Educaton and Research initiative supporting international cooperation in education and research, now offers a new service for users seeking cooperation with the best clusters worldwide or looking for international benchmarks. On the cluster portal they will find detailed information on, among others,

• the thematic profile and infrastructure of the cluster
• its most important actors and their contact details
• the cluster's international strategy and its potentials for cooperation.

A cluster news channel complements the cluster portraits and offers up to date information on the latest innovation strategies, activities and results of the cluster and its actors.

Currently the following cluster portraits can be found.

• Canada’s Technology Triangle
• Cluster Bangalore
• Cluster Cambridge
• Cluster Copenhagen/Öresund Region
• Cluster Helsinki
• Cluster Hsinchu
• Cluster Seattle
• Cluster Zhongguancun
• Grenoble / Lyon High Tech Cluster
• Research Triangle Park
• San Diego Biotech Cluster
• Silicon Valley
• Sophia Antipolis
• Tel Aviv / Jerusalem / Haifa Biotech Cluster

Further cluster portraits will follow in the course of 2010, among them Paris Region, Tokyo and Qatar.