Over the past fifteen years, regional industrial cluster development has gained popularity as a vital economic development strategy to boost competitiveness in a globalizing economy. Moreover, many policy makers and academicians see industrial cluster analysis as the ultimate policy panacea. With the mushrooming of industrial cluster studies, the relevant literature on industrial clusters offer...

For some time now, China has relied heavily on industrial clusters to create an international competitive edge. While the program has been largely successful, China has increasingly had to cope with severe accusations from its trading partners who claim a policy of dumping and selling low quality products with flaws, and hazardous outcomes. Claims are also made that China has not been as mindfu...

for the past 3 decades, creating industrial clusters have been considered as an approach for the development of most small and medium enterprises. the goal of this programme is that all small and medium enterprises locating in a certain geoghraphic area can concentrate on cluster approach to collaborate in market research, production design, training and other activities that are not economical...

Through investigation on farmer, company and relevant bureau of local government, an analysis was conducted on organizational evolution of flower industrial cluster through induction and statistical methods. The research indicated that the organizational scale and structure had been unceasingly evolved during the process resulting in such industrial cluster. In recent years, the industrial clus...

Regional Competitiveness is often emphasized on the comparative advantage of such region in a particular country. A competitive region is one that attracts and maintains achieved companies, while improving inhabitats’ standard of living. Skilled workforces, regional resources and investments are often drawn to a competitive region. Storper (1997) defined regional competitiveness as “...the abil...

Social scientists have long noticed that firms engaged in the same business tend to be co-located with each other in a small number of separate places. This phenomenon was labeled as “economies of agglomeration” by Alfred Marshall (1920) in his neo-classical Principles of Economics. More recently, the term “industrial cluster” – defined as geographic concentrations of interconnected companies a...

This study attempts to contribute to the cluster innovation literature by adding the collective learning perspective and propose an analytical framework on collective learning of cluster. Industrial cluster is viewed as a prevalent mode for technology innovation in knowledge-based economy. Collective learning outlines how local innovation network and spatial proximity between actors influence t...

Industrial clusters have received considerable attention as a regional development strategy. While their efficacy has been debated by academics, clusters have become popular among practitioners. Despite clusters’ acceptance, there have been few attempts to measure their success or their impact on constituent firms. This paper outlines and discusses the metrics developed to evaluate the success ...