A Case Study of Attractive Factors for Intelligence Capital in Industry Clusters

Although the concept of industry agglomeration were put forward quite early (Young, 1928; North, 1981), research on this industrial production phenomenon began to be prosperous these days with the emerging of modern industrial park or center or cluster such as Silicon Valley in America. Both academicians and practitioners recon that the definition, identification and application of the cluster would be advantageous for the economic development of local district. One decisive element for the development of industry cluster is the human intelligence capital deployed. Then how to attract abundant competent human resources becomes an essential tacit. However, literatures on this theme are few. In this research, firstly,the attractive factors of industry cluster for human capital are distinguished based on the review of previous literatures focusing on the characteristics of industry cluster with the aim to propel its development. Furthermore, case study is adopted here describing a survey conducted in Shunde, a most concentrated area of industry clusters in South China. Three typical clusters, household appliances, furniture and flower clusters in Shunde are visited and Interviews are carried out toward target interviewees and questionnaires are issued to get data for the analysis. Next, the attractive factors are ranked considering the literature and empirical study result. Finally, it is concluded that the trials characteristics of industry cluster empower itself stronger attraction than single enterprise and factors typically for industry cluster are sketched and different people have different response to the attraction. At the end of article, these factors are further categorized into Self-actualization Attractive Factors (SAAF) and Safety Attractive Factors (SAF) group and it is also might be the further research orientation.