Industrial clusters have received considerable attention from economists and industrial analysts. The main purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the driving forces behind the growth of industrial clusters. Another core viewpoint anchored in this paper is that national competitive advantages can be achieved by industrial clusters. We examine the impacts of and determine ...

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the effects of industrial cluster on innovation capacity, and second, to study the impact of external resources on firms’ innovation capacity especially under Chinese regional economic policy. This is a critical subject that lacks sufficient analysis. Through years of investment and effort, several IT industrial clusters have developed in Chin...

The phenomenon and model of industrial clusters marketing is a cross-linking subject on the industry cluster theory and regional marketing. It can answer if the high-tech industry clusters marketing belong to a traditional industrial clusters phenomenon? This paper focuses on discussion about whether there is a cluster marketing model. First the concept of clusters marketing model was defined, ...

This paper outlines the development of a high-tech industrial cluster through the efforts of entrepreneurs who adapted to both constructive crises and new opportunities, creating the factors and conditions that facilitated their business interests. We examine the initial factors influencing individual decisions to become entrepreneurs and how external factors influence the formation and locatio...

Slovenia has begun with its national cluster policy in 2001. Industrial clusters have been a prevalent element of Slovenian competitiveness policy for next four years. More than thirty cluster initiatives were born in Slovenia in that period. The authors of this paper have followed the birth, organization and performance of industrial clusters in Slovenia for the period of three years. Based on...

o ne of the effective strategies for economic development of clusters is the conduct of networking activities by cluster members. indeed, the majority of cluster members are micro and small enterprises, so, should attempt to overcome their inherent constraints and influence the market through networking activities. in addition, these enterprises lack an intra-firm research and development unit ...

Governments around the world are investing significant resources in the development of logistics clusters. This paper develops a methodology for identifying them and applies it to answer several lingering questions in the context of the US. It contributes to a more general debate in the general industrial clusters literature: while many authors see industrial clusters growing, others see them d...

O ne of the effective strategies for economic development of clusters is the conduct of networking activities by cluster members. Indeed, the majority of cluster members are micro and small enterprises, so, should attempt to overcome their inherent constraints and influence the market through networking activities. In addition, these enterprises lack an intra-firm research and develo...