Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Mr. David Hegarty:

I will hand over to one of my colleagues shortly. As part of the process of developing the White Paper, we did some separate work on clustering. We looked very closely at how clustering is used in countries like Denmark and Finland and in places like Catalonia and the Basque region in Spain. Those countries take a more, I would call it, deliberative process on clustering, and they decide at national or regional level what types of areas and what sectors of opportunity clustering organisations need to be in. It is probably more top-down in nature than our approach. We were struck by those examples and, basically, we feel - and the White Paper articulates this - that clustering needs to play a stronger role as one of our enterprise policy toolkits going forward.

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