“…As a result, in this sense, any CCIs' potential for the region could be an individual, a firm, a cluster or regional economy or could be perceived through the lens of knowledge spillovers [14,35,63]. These, in turn, emerge as an outcome of formal and informal collaborative modes between CCIs and other firms, networks [64], strategic alliances [65,66] or even user-communities [67]. Therefore, when exchanging and transferring knowledge, methods, tools and perceptions of the environment from their own perspective, CCIs and other sectors engage into crosssectoral collaboration and develop a cross-innovation process [68,69].…”