Our work on cluster development strategies involves helping stakeholders formulate a collective ‘vision’ and practical strategy. We work with stakeholders to formulate new public–private partnerships. We advice on innovative institutional frameworks that are required to successfully manage the increasing velocity of change that characterized many national and artisan economies of today.

More specifically, the staff of ACDS has conducted number of cluster diagnostic studies as a part of Cluster Development Programme of UNIDO in India from 1998 to 2004. This includes Textiles, ICT, Handlooms and Handicrafts, Food Processing, Metal Ware, Engineering, Pharmaceuticals and Leather. The team members have helped Regional Governments to develop investment, planning and policy responses in order to build cluster strength and depth. The accumulated knowledge and experience is therefore the core competence of the service company like ours.

Apex Cluster Development Services (ACDS) Private Ltd (CLUSTERCRAFT) is an Industrial and Artisan Cluster Development company. We work in a diverse range of fields, ranging from Information Communication Technology & Innovation to Regional Development, and from Business Competitiveness to Governance empowerment. In all of our work we employ the same principles of bottom up, need based approach.

Our areas are centered primarily on strategic and management consultancy for the development of emerging and developing economies by using Cluster Development Approach. The focus of this work is on increasing business competitiveness and growth; increasing and improving public-private dialogue processes; developing mechanisms in the public and private sectors to increase their competitive advantage; boosting trade and investment opportunities; fostering institutional and organizational improvement; intensifying performance of small and micro-sized enterprises and expanding social development capabilities at the grass-root level in artisan clusters.

ACDS has acquired a deep and broad understanding of the cluster development approach and policies that underlie strong leveraging techniques. Such understanding informs our understanding of coherent and balanced approaches that address the economic, governance, and institutional issues that arise in implementing people centric sustainable development

Cluster based development approach for ACDS is a means of overcoming constraints, achieving strategic objectives, improving public-private dialogue, encouraging investment, and creating awareness of market requirements and opportunities.

We have started our journey with a collective vision, of developing an environment where the MSMEs are capacitated for self-development and competition in the markets, and where there is equitable distribution of share among all stakeholders in the business process.

 

 
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