We believe that:

1) Understanding how to build up positive culture can significantly help in creating prosperous business clusters

• Culture defines management, leadership and executive culture
• Organization culture includes a vast amount of assumptions, which shows how the members of the group see both internal relations to each other but also relations related to the environment
• Understanding the culture is understanding the organization - or a cluster

Source: Edgar Schein: Organisational Culture & Leadership

2) When developing a positive clustering culture, it is essential to increase the awareness of the intellectual capital concept

• Intellectual capital (culture of wisdom)
  = Knowledge capital + Social capital + Emotional capital

Sources: Ghosal and Gratton, London Business School, 2003 and Prof. Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Lappeenranta University of Technology

Culture is like a vitamin - you notice the lack of it

As highlighted also by the European Commission, "Culture, creativity and innovation" are in the very spotlight of EPROCA in 2009, the year of active internationalization of its operations.

Diversity is not a disease, its a richness

EPROCA got registrated in January 17th 2008, during the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue

Co-operation and competition

Co-operation even with your competitors is crucial in clustering process. We believe that being in the same boat brings more value to overall competition than being apart. Share with us Petri Törmänen's poem:

"Two partners passing by, rowing under storming sky. Roaring wind shakes the ride, engage the mates, side by side. Both know in their heart: together we win, not apart".

 - Petri Törmänen -