The cluster has been championed by ministers, including David Cameron.
Cambridge University, which powers the cluster, has a number of high cards.
Since the early days, he says, the University of Cambridge – in many ways now at the heart of the cluster – has undergone a crucial shift in attitude.
"[The cluster has] achieved a huge amount," says Liz Lyden, chief executive of the Care Leavers Foundationn, which worked with the four authorities.
The cluster has responded by increasingly tying their work to cost-saving benefits as well as setting their sights beyond the Spanish border, targeting markets across Europe and in central and south America.
Workers there once made bells; now the cluster has around 380 firms that together employ about 10,000 people making valves and taps, businesses that took off with reconstruction after the second world war and the building boom that followed.
Regional legislation recognising the cluster has brought public money to promote prosecco, a wine made mainly from the grape of the same name.Not that prosecco needs much help, judging by what has happened in recent years.
For these reasons, the cluster has been labelled as locavores.
The cluster has a total net charge Q="∑i= 1,nqi (Q>0 or Q<0).
But the cluster has one big disadvantage, according to a study published online today in Nature.
The Cluster has enabled strategic appointments to be made that boost expertise in particular areas.
