طراحی مدل خوشه صنعتی برای صنایع کوچک و متوسط تولید کننده قطعات خودرو (مطالعه موردی استان آذربایجان‌شرقی)

The aim of this study was to investigate the structure of smalland medium auto – parts manufacturing enterprises and todetermine the interrelationship of them, and their relationship withthe suppliers, the market and financial institutes and creditors, andthe scientific research centers in the form of industrial clusters inorder to introduce the cluster development model. In this researchproject, a field research study of a cluster has been done by usingvarious data collection methods such as questionnaires, interviews,observations and objective measurements in order to analyze thevalue chain of production processes and determine the matrix ofstrengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of cluster(SWOT).In continuation of the program, by using cluster modeling toolswithin UNIDO framework, the proposed cluster model of the autoparts industry for Tabriz was devised and developed. The findingshave shown that small and medium enterprises of auto-parts, dueto lack of mutual cooperations for producing common products,unavailability of sufficient capital and proper investments and alsoweak communications and weak business to business relationships,have not been able to take advantage of research programsavailable for them and this has resulted in diminishing businessesand many bankruptcies.If these enterprises can put their businesses into a healty andeffective framework such as cluster strategy models, it would bepossible to bring about a healthy situation within ٣ to ٤ years. Themodel produced can be easily adapted to many other differentclusters.