The Palmisano report [9] in the USA (Innovate America), the Beffa report 14 in France (Renewing the French Industrial Policy), the Renaissance II report in Canada [10] , the Commonwealth report in Australia [11] , and the organic law of technology transfer and development of the intellectual property in Japan[12] are different examples of commitment for innovation.
In the development of a policy of innovation most policy makers consider that this is by an increase of the financial facilities for R&D that innovation will be developed. But, if you consider the Competitive Intelligence policy and its impact on innovation this is a more complicated scheme which must be developed. The Competitive Intelligence must become the vector of a new policy where new relationships between the public authorities, the education and research centers (publics or privates) and the industries will increase the national and regional innovation potential. This policy will have for consequences the development of new regional clusters where a new governance will play an essential role.
The clusters and their role in the regional development were enlighten by M. Porter in his book “The competitive advantage of the nations”[13]. Currently it is admitted that the regional development passes by a policy of cluster’s development. But, it is only very recently that the Competitive Intelligence was introduced into the implementation of this policy. If clusters generally quoted in example like Silicon Valey USA, Triangle Park USA, Italian districts, technopolis of Sofia-Antipolis were developed in several tens of years to reach their maturity, the objective, today in the major part of the cases is to accelerate the development of the clusters hoping to have for consequence a faster regional development. This policy of development is not improvised, as well as the methods and tools used to achieve this goal.
Competitive Intelligence because its focus all national forces to the same objective can be a good catalyst for the promotion of clusters. The notion of cluster has been defined by M. Porter in his book “On Competition” published in 1998.
A cluster (it can be also called pole of competitiveness as in France), is the group of all stakeholders which can be concerned by one activity, such as for instance a cluster on wood industry development19 or some clusters such as the coconut cluster which could be easily created in North Sulawesi in Indonesia20. According M. Porter the contour of the cluster should include the following partners:
• the client companies,
• companies of the sectors downstream, companies of the related sectors,
• manufacturers of complementary products,
• suppliers of machines and specialized components,
• service providers,
• financial institutions (for instance the investors),
• suppliers of infrastructure of communication,
• the authorities (regional or national),
• the institutions proposing training programs (education, information, research..),
• the agencies of standardization,
• the Chambers of Commerce and Industry and all other professional networks and private associations.
To create a cluster, the contour must be carefully determined and generally it must starts from a region where a minimum threshold of industries and natural resources already exist. This means that several steps must be fulfil before moving to the final contour of the cluster. The most important steps are the following:
• The knowledge of the Region and of the economic, technologic and scientific information who underlines the current activities
• Technologies mapping
• Mapping of scientific and technical competences
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