Study On Upgrading Of High-tech Industrial Clusters

In recent years, industrial cluster has been an effective form of industrial organizations to promote Chinese economic development. The high-tech industrial clusters become the most important part of industrial clusters in our country, its theoretical and practical studies have been attracted wide attentions. Since it is in the initial stage, most Chinese high-tech industrial clusters are still at lower stage in the global division. Therefore, how to receive the high-tech industrial clusters' sustainable development and upgrade becomes an urgent subject.The upgrade mechanism of industrial cluster (mainly high-tech industrial cluster) is the main clue of this dissertation research. The methodology includes industrial economics,regional economics and management theory, normative analysis,empirical analysis,comparison analysis and other economic analysis etc."Regional innovation network-regional brand-value chain", the upgrading logic of the cluster is put forward, then empirical analysis the software industrial cluster in Xi'an is implemented. Through the preliminary analysis, this paper draws conclusions as follow:First, the upgrade of industrial cluster has related with many research fields and theories, but the logic of upgrade can be simplified as "regional innovation network-regional brand-value chain", it means the perfecting of the regional innovation network can promote regional brands, and building and maintaining regional brand can help industrial cluster embedding value chain, then embedded value chain can realize upgrades; Second, the essence of industrial cluster upgrade is the promotion of creation ability, which is from innovation ability and the improvement of the efficiency. The cluster continuous innovation and improvement is realized by regional innovation network which constitutes with different subjects and mutual relationship, so the regional innovation network of industrial cluster is the core power; Third, the nodes of each subject and subject network composed the regional innovation network. The construction and improvement of the regional innovation network can promote industrial cluster on the subject,the products and the innovation ability, which ascension can make the industrial cluster famous and become a well-known industrial cluster. Moreover, just like the regional innovation network, regional brand also can promote industrial cluster upgrade; Furthermore, the development of industrial clusters is usually subject to internal resources constraint, and in the era of economic globalization, the industrial cluster must complete development in an open form and in one or several of the value chains. The embedding is actually the way for industrial cluster getting resources and markets from the external relevance. Therefore Industrial cluster upgrade must embed the value chain, and regional brand building and maintaining can make industrial cluster embed value chain more easily; In addition, due to the differences of styles and stages of industrial clusters'development, the upgrade paths are diverse, and so is the theory of upgrade path. This paper mainly has three innovation points:First:the feasibility of upgrade is prompted greatly when the high-tech industrial clusters realize the upgrade by considering the embedding in global value chain and taking the national value chains as a view point at same time. Not only the local cluster's development in the global value chain, but also the various factors within the region for industrial cluster and state, adjust measures to local conditions, are joined thinking, which can offer a wide variety of theoretical and practical support for industrial clusters.Second:This paper research high-tech industrial cluster upgrades not only from value chain,brand and innovative network, but also from the upgrade logic of "regional innovation network-regional brand-value chain". It broke through the limitations which research for the factors affecting industrial cluster upgrade from a single perspective.Third:Based on the development of industrial clusters, the study of high-tech industrial cluster in western has only just begun. This paper bases on innovation network,brand and the value chain for the research of Xi'an software industrial cluster upgrade. It expands the research angle and field of the industrial cluster upgrade.