Clustering and networking in Business Start-up. A managerial approach to push and pull intervention for Entreprise creation

Abstract

The paper aims to discuss the state of art regarding the managerial side of international intervention to support the start-up of economies particularly considering SMEs diffusion as a tool for the democratization process and, with a comparative analysis, for the definition of the models prepared on the subject. To this purpose the Author’s experiences in projects managed in Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Slovenia to improve the visibility and competitiveness of local systems will give the opportunity to compare clustering techniques based on resources and push approach to the enterprise creation by networking and pull approach connected to the building of stable and predictable forms of relationship among public and private entities.