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•To have an interest in the interrelationships between the actors of the cluster from the perspective of governance and institutional arrangements, helps to overcome the comment that differences are a result in path dependency.•Of course, as said, there is path dependency.•Events in the past do have their influence on later developments.•But these events are rooted themselves in certain conditions.•The path of the cluster is characterized by events and crossings.•In this paper these are the general dynamics.•These dynamics have an effect.•But the feedback on these crossings is influenced by the factors as operationalized by the sensitizing concepts researched in this paper.•They can be linked to the existence of different political economic structures that make up the institutional arrangements that together make up for the existence of shared values.•These differences, often stemming from the past, could be partly explanatory for differences in the appearance of these sensitizing concepts.