The decree relating to the support and the development of the Business Clusters defines them as follows:
« By business cluster, we have to understand the association joining a mode of organization of the productive system established mainly at the initiative of companies having an activity in the Walloon Region, which can, where needed, appoint the participation of academic institutions, research centers , training centers, and which is characterized by
the mobilization of a representative critical mass covering one or several fields of activity;
a co-operation framework encompassing related activities,
the voluntary development between the companies of a complementarity relationship, vertical or horizontal, profit or non-profit ;
the promotion of a common vision of development. »
