.../methodology/approach – Educational institutions are typically regulated by governmental procedures and do not follow entrepreneurial management models. This paper suggests the assumption of a value chain of schools with the student as a significant customer as well as the object of intervention. Experiences...

..., such as mangers, policymakers, etc. Intellectual capital Cluster analysis Value chain Strategic management Socio‐economic regions Modelling Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field (Porter, 1998 , p. 78). Industrial districts...

... as commodities, to “non‐price” factors of competition. The accelerating pace of value‐chain erosion is driving a relentless search for new factors of differentiation and market leverage, with the result that firms are trying to create, maintain or invade monopolies founded on intangibles. This has led to some...