Virtual Innovation Clusters: the Grid and Customer Relationship Management

创新集群被视为以地理为基础，侧重于产品开发。然而，最近的研究表明，地理集群的技术创新低于地理分散的公司，它们的竞争力来自定制产品和营销方面的创新。的出现？网格？增强能力？虚拟？集群通过安装一个网格门户网站和网格使能分析工具，我们出口的能力，一个地理集群周围的欧洲领先的计算设施和对比这与虚拟集群在澳大利亚，在那里我们展示了一个创新的应用程序的高性能计算建模消费者行为和管理客户关系。

Innovation Clusters are seen as geographically based and focussed on product development. Recent studies however indicate that technical innovation in geographic clusters is lower than geographically dispersed companies, and that their competitiveness arises from innovations in tailoring products and marketing. The emergence of the ?Grid? enhances the capabilities of ?Virtual? Clusters. Through installation of a Grid Portal and Grid-enabling analysis tools, we export the capabilities of a geographical cluster around Europe's leading computational facility and contrast this with a Virtual Cluster in Australia, where we demonstrate an innovative application of High-Performance Computing to modelling consumer behaviour and managing customer relations.