Around the globe, government officials vigorously attempt to reinforce their own Silicon Somewhere. Doing that, however, proves to be tricky in large part due to the fact that cluster policy necessitates a new mode of governance, which changes the way cluster policy is formulated and government officials' role therein. Sub-optimality in participatory efforts, regrettably, signals that government officials have not yet fully adapted to this new reality. Transformation is still incomplete and hinges on a pragmatic outlook on how to actually accommodate this change in policy development. This paper aims to address the latter by introducing a new take on policy development and a specific institutional modality (centred on civic entrepreneurs) that incites a parallel learning process of strategic learning and institutional learning.
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