First Mid Term scientific report

The scientific report will include: 1. panel of available data on clusters on EU and US open sources; 2. preliminary assessment grid for analysing clusters; 3. List of case studies to be investigated; 4. Survey form and interview form to be used for the case studies data gathering; 5. Stakeholders preliminary mapping. The preliminary activities will be: Construction of the MAPS-LED panel of available data on clusters on EU and US open sources, suitable to make the transferability of the methodology possible thanks to the comparative perspective of the indicators (SOBE/NESUSEP); Construction of a preliminary MAPS-LED grid for analysing and assessing clusters, including qualitative and qualitative indicators and elements to be considered in the case studies analysis (PAU/NEUSEP); Desk based preliminary analysis of the clusters available in the Boston area, based on the MAPS-LED grid (FOCUS/AALTO/SOBE); Construction of the operational tools for the data gathering, in particular: construction of a survey form to gather the quantitative indicators related to the case study, and of an interview form to administrate interviews to key people to the cluster (PAU