Our Publications

  • 'Cluster Based Economic Development - Economic Development of New Zealand’ p 187-203, 2005, Ashgate Publishing, UK

  • ‘Cluster Development: Red Lights and Green Lights’- Sustaining Regions, Journal of Australian New Zealand Regional Science Association International, November 2004

  • Michael J. Enright and Ifor Ffowcs-Williams. "Local Partnerships, Clusters and SME Globalization", in ‘Enhancing SME Competitiveness’ (Paris: OECD, 2001), 115-150

  • Policy for Inter-firm Networking and Clustering: A Practitioner’s Perspective’ - OECD Ministerial Conference, Bologna, Italy - June 2000

  • ‘Greenlight on Clusters’ - Unlimited Magazine (NZ) June 1999

  • ‘Stimulating Local Clusters – the Local Growth Engines’ - Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association Journal, May 1998 (Awarded best-published paper of the year)

  • ‘Upgrading Nelson, New Zealand’s Seafood Capital’ - Seafood New Zealand, June 1997

  • ‘Local Clusters and Local Export Growth’ - New Zealand Strategic Management, Summer 1997

  • Choral Societies and Export Growth’ – in Social Capital and Policy Development, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University, 1997

  • ‘Stimulating Local Clusters’ – World Bank Workshop for Practitioners in Cluster Formation, Chihuahua, Mexico, 1997

  • ‘Hard and Soft Networks’ - New Zealand Strategic Management, Summer 1996

  • ‘Co-operating to Compete’ - Australasian Agricultural Science Journal, Nov-Dec 1996

  • ‘New Zealand: The Internationalisation of Competition and the Emergence of Networks’ – in Networks of Enterprises and Local Development, OECD Paris (1996)

  • 'Cluster Development: The Go-To Handbook - Building Competitiveness through Smart Specialisation' - Ifor Ffowcs-Williams - October 2012