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What is the Strategy Tools platform?
DIGITAL ACADEMY
Learn the very latest tools, thinking, and methods in strategy. Learn at your own pace with the Strategy Tools Digital Academy.
STRATEGY PROJECTS
From mapping investors in your cluster to cluster strategy projects; this is the perfect platform for you.
STRATEGY CANVASES
Get the right tools for your cluster development. With 40+ powerful cluster strategy tools you can take on any strategy challenge.
COMMUNITY HUB
This is your space to connect with like-minded cluster leaders, ask questions, share your work, and learn from the experiences of others.
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Cluster Business Models
Exploring Business Models in Global Innovation Clusters. Get unique cluster business model tools – never before published, expert views on the cluster business model revolution and emerging thinking on cluster business models.
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Read our strategy insights
The world of strategy is shifting. Leaders, companies & governments are looking for new ways to build strategies for the future. Read more about these shifts in our insights.
REPORT
BUILDING INNOVATION SUPERCLUSTERS
Report based on work with over 40 clusters and cluster initiatives (from autonomous mobility, drones, energy transformation, heavy industries, aquaculture and more).
ARTICLE
CLUSTERS & CAPITAL: 10 CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME
How should an innovation cluster tackle the challenges they will face developing a capital strategy? And how can clusters connect their strategy capital with the bold work coming from the EIC?
ARTICLE
LEADERSHIP IN THE AGE OF SUPERCLUSTERS
In this article we explore the leadership traits and behaviors we have identified in interviews, observations and in-depth conversations with formal and informal cluster leaders across countries and industries.
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Learn and build strategic capabilities
Deliver more value to your cluster. Upskill in just hours, with on-demand strategy programs available anytime, anywhere.
GLOBAL CLUSTER LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Designed for cluster managers, cluster boards, national cluster programs, policy makers, and ecosystem developers, the Global Cluster Leadership Program helps you build capacity for cluster management.
SUPERCLUSTER! SIMULATION CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
A 100% online certification program to support your development, learning and mastery of the Supercluster! simulation. Bring to your cluster, innovation agency, economic development agency clients, or ecosystem.
SCALE UP COACH PROGRAM
Scale-Up Coach is an online program to help you build better start-ups, scale-ups, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. This 100% self-paced program teaches you the top 12 tools & apps you need to become a Scale-Up Coach
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Start working
Work on strategy together with your team on relevant tools that have been developed for today’s clusters such as:
SUPERCLUSTER STRATEGY INTRO
Create a cluster strategy in a single, easy-to-understand framework to foster understanding and alignment around your supercluster strategy.
SUPERCLUSTER STRATEGY MAP
Helps you map out a supercluster strategy and how you can involve, engage and activate all stakeholders in a supercluster development project.
SUPERCLUSTER OPEN INNOVATION MAP
Using the Open Innovation Map, innovation clusters can now quickly set up a strategy, structure, and process for open innovation at the cluster level.
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Develop Your Cluster with Cluster Solutions
From workshops, Cluster & Capital programs or multi-year cluster strategy projects . Work with us on the Strategy Tools Cluster Programs – 100% digital or blended. See one example how we design and deliver a 3-9 month Cluster & Capital Program.
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Strategy Tools Hub is a growing community platform for professionals working with strategy. From strategy consultants, CEOs, startups, government leaders to internal strategy teams, this is your space to connect with like-minded strategists, share your work, and learn from the experiences of others.
How NCE Seafood Innovation Cluster Gets Its Startups Investor-Ready
Bergen-based NCE Seafood Innovation Cluster has long had entrepreneurship
as a strategic pillar.
But after mapping out the startup members, one thing stood out.
How can we get the startups more investor ready?
The answer came in the digital-first program “Are You Ready to Raise Capital”
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“The new cluster strategy which we developed together with Christian Rangen resulted in two things – we got a new strategic area called “Startups & Commercialization”, and we now have a structure to better engage and interact with the startup and VC communities.”