New Space for Growth: Research on the Core Competencies of Industrial Clusters

Author: Lu Kaiyin
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book takes the core capabilities of industrial clusters as its main thread, based on the theories of industrial cluster growth and enterprise core capabilities, conducting a layered and in-depth analysis and research on the core capabilities of industrial clusters. The author believes that industrial clusters have their own successes and failures during the growth process, and the internal mechanism determining their growth is their own core capabilities. This book is the first to apply the theory of core capabilities to analyze the connotation of industrial cluster core capabilities, establishing a theoretical analysis framework for industrial cluster core capabilities that is hierarchical, interconnected, and mutually complementary, primarily composed of knowledge elements, institutional elements, resource elements, and market performance elements. It argues that the organic integration of learning ability, knowledge accumulation, innovation capability, organizational routines, social capital, etc., constitutes the core capabilities of industrial clusters; integrated knowledge becomes the source of industrial cluster core capabilities, and under the mechanism of knowledge integration, the knowledge of industrial clusters, especially tacit knowledge, forms the core of the source of their core capabilities. The book also analyzes the impact of social capital on industrial clusters and their core capabilities from aspects such as embeddedness, performance, structure, and pathways. It examines the life cycle, evolutionary process, pathways, and mechanisms of industrial clusters and their core capabilities from a fresh perspective of evolutionary economics. From a methodological perspective, it explores the identification methods of industrial cluster core capabilities. Based on the practical realities of industrial clusters, it proposes policy recommendations and countermeasures to enhance regional economic competitiveness by fostering local industrial clusters. This book holds significant theoretical and practical value for the cultivation, consolidation, diagnosis, and renewal of regional industrial cluster core capabilities.