Knowledge Spillover Perspective Of Industrial Cluster Innovation Capabilities To Enhance Research

Industry cluster is a dimensional industrial organization system which refers to the flexible accumulation of a large number of enterprises as well as the relevant support agencies in a specific geographical area. This system, rooted in the local socio-cultural environment of continuous innovation, forms a close network of cooperation and flexible specialization among businesses in the region.In the past half century, industrial cluster has become one of the most important economic phenomenons in the world. More and more countries reckon industrial clusters as an important way to improve regional competitiveness and a strategic approach to stimulate regional economic growth. But the reality tells us that industrial cluster is not a cure-all---it can't maintain a competitive edge for long time. They may lose their competitive position for factors from external or internal and even collapse finally. The sustainable competitiveness of industrial clusters in one area subjects to its innovation level. Therefore, it is the core issue of this paper that studies what factors effect and how they affect the innovative capacity of industrial clusters, and accordingly give the corresponding policy recommendations of cultivating and upgrading industry cluster innovation capability.Around the above-mentioned problems, this article firstly deconstructs industrial clusters from the perspective of knowledge, and then has a theoretical analysis and research to knowledge-spillover Mechanism within the industrial clusters. The paper points out; behind the network of industrial cluster division is the network of intensive knowledge division. The knowledge spillover in industrial clusters is essentially a process of industrial cluster as a whole on the absorption of knowledge----acquisition, movement, digestion and transformation, and also a complex process of multi-subject participation and co-evolution. The source of knowledge spillover, knowledge spillover channels and social capital for industrial cluster are indispensable factors for effective work of knowledge-spillover effect. Secondly, this article makes analysis on cases of specific industry clusters, trying to explore and summarize some mechanism that the existing theory has not yet discovered. This paper pointed out why the establishment of Taiwan's bicycle industry Association (A-Team) led to the innovative capabilities and the position in the global industrial network's of Taiwan's bicycle industry cluster greatly enhanced. One fundamental reason is that A-Team has effectively expanded and strengthened four areas of the Taiwan bicycle industry cluster in knowledge acquisition, assimilation, conversion and utilization, thus making the knowledge spillover effect in the industrial cluster fully developed and the knowledge absorptive capacity of the industrial cluster greatly increased. Based on this, combined with the previous theoretical analysis, we put forward seven hypotheses thereafter.Again, the article makes the five major high-tech industries of China's 31 provinces as the research object, setting 10 econometric models to have empirical test of the seven above-mentioned hypotheses. We found that (1) The concentration degree of the cluster has a positive effect on innovation performance of the cluster; (2) the accumulation degree of industrial cluster plays a positive regulatory role on the positive relationship between the cluster innovation inputs (including R& D funding, R& D investment) and the innovation performance; (3) the degree of social trust within the industry cluster has a positive effect on the cluster innovation performance; (4) the degree of industrial cluster embedded in global production networks acts a positive mediation role on the positive effect between the scale of industrial cluster and innovation performance; (5) The degree of marketization in the external region of the industry cluster has a positive effect on the innovative performance of the cluster; (6)the degree of the diversification of the industry in the outside area of the industrial cluster has a positive effect on the innovation performance of the cluster.Finally, combined with the relevant conclusions of theoretical and empirical analysis, the paper makes some analysis about the role and the effect of the government in enhancing the innovative capability of the industrial cluster, and gives the following four proposals:(1) to enhance the innovation capability of the industry cluster, we must adhere to the " market-based, the Government added" basic principle; (2) to enhance the innovation capability of the industry cluster, we must guarantee the full play of the order normalization role of the government; (3) to enhance the innovative capability of the cluster, government should focus on promoting the integration of regional industry cluster into the global industrial value chain system, and focusing on encouraging the cultivation of independent innovation ability; (4) to enhance the innovation capability of the cluster, government should focus on promoting the symbiotic co-existence and integrative development of different industries.