The Decision Group is a high-end consulting form with over 15 years of expertise in Life Sciences and Healthcare industries. The Decision Group is expert on clusters and competitiveness of clusters and carries out research in this field. Academic connections with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and his Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness, The Cluster observatory of the Stochholm School of Business, Grenoble Management School and The George Washington University have led to an Academic Council that fully supports and validated the methodology we developed to monitor the Dutch Life Sciences & Health cluster.