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Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions working together at economically linked activities in a particular sector. Clusters play an important role as mechanisms to improve regional and national development through a collaborative, associative organizational form. There are many factors that contribute to clusters´ competitiveness (e.g.: collaboration among firms, trust, cluster governance). However there is no consensus in the literature about these factors and the same factor may be defined in different ways, according to different disciplines. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to present a validated qualitative research instrument to assess cluster competitiveness factors. A former version of this instrument was proposed by Rigoni & Saccol (2012). The instrument was empirically validated in an agricultural cluster of flower growers located in the South of Brazil, with a set of 12 constructs and 48 competitiveness factors. Some of them were initially identified in the literature, and others emerged from the field. The validated research instrument is intended to (1) foster further theory development on clusters’ competitiveness and (2) be empirically applied in other settings in order to allow the assessment of competitiveness factors of a cluster.
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