Despite scepticism among researchers, policies to promote geographical clusters of firms in the same sector remain popular. Max Nathan evaluates a flagship programme set up a decade ago to accelerate the growth of Tech City in East London. While the cluster has increased in size and density, the outcomes for firm performance are ? at best ? mixed. That raises some bigger questions for future cluster policies.

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2 March 2020     Paper Number CEPCP571

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Urban programme.