Research On The Interaction And Coordination Of The Industrial Cluster Entrepreneur Incubation Actors

Industrial clusters and entrepreneurial activities have played an important role in the regional development. However, the competitive advantage of industrial clusters and its innovative advantages come not only from the aggregation of enterprises, but also rely on the interaction and coordination between the enterprises and institutes. To achieve a rational allocation of capital, technological resources, labor forces and etc. in the process of entrepreneurship incubation, requires the positive interaction of the cluster members, to enhance the synergy effects of local governments, industry associations and other relevant institutions. Therefore, it has important theoretical value and practical significance to take the industrial clusters as an entrepreneurial incubation system, to research on the interaction mechanism of major factors in the process of hatching entrepreneurial talent, and explore their coordination mechanism for the entrepreneurship incubation.Firstly, on the basis of literature review, the dissertation reveals the network and multilevel characteristics of the industrial clusters, analyzes the elements and structure of the entrepreneurship incubation systems of the industrial clusters, and discusses the incubation effects of the cluster institutes, entrepreneurial resources and networks on the entrepreneurial talents, to propose the conceptual framework of the industrial cluster incubation system. By applying the qualitative research methods, and through the semi-structured interviews with the entrepreneurial talents in the industry cluster, the empirical research explores the functions of the major institutes in the industrial cluster. By the content analysis of the interview data and the semantic network analysis technology, the function and structure model of entrepreneurship incubation systems in industrial clusters is built, to analyze the interaction and coordination process of each incubation actors.Secondly, based on the conceptual framework of entrepreneurial incubation system in industrial clusters, the thesis analyzes the mechanism of industrial cluster entrepreneurial incubation system from three perspectives of the industrial cluster institutes, entrepreneurial resource and network, explores the incubation effects of the entrepreneurial resource, the supporting effects of the cluster institutes and the intermediate effects of network, and constructs the theoretical hypodessertation model of the industrial cluster's effects on the entrepreneurial talents. Through structured questionnaires collected from the entrepreneurs in the industrial cluster, an empirical test using structural equation modeling is conducted to verify the compose elements of the industrial cluster entrepreneurial incubation system, and reveal the mechanism of each industrial clusters elements'influencing effects on entrepreneurial talents.Thirdly, through the literature and empirical research methods, the dessertation analyzes the difference of the incubation function of each industrial cluster institutes, and divides the interaction of those cluster institutes into two levels, which includes the interaction of the enterprises in the core network layer based on enterprise supply chain collaboration and competition; and the interaction between the core network layers and the auxiliary network layers based on research collaboration. On this basis, the multi-level space interaction model of industrial clusters incubation institutes is built. Through empirical case studies, and by the use of social networks analysis (SNA) technique, the network nodes and the relationship chain are defined to portray the interaction network graphs of the industrial cluster incubation institutes, and reveal the interactive mechanism of the industry cluster incubation system.Finally, by reference to the synergetic theory, the dessertation analyzes the coordination of the industrial cluster incubation system, reveals the resource allocation and institutes synergistic effect of the industry cluster in the hatching process of the entrepreneurial talent, and proposes the evaluation indicators. Through case studies, the coordination mechanism of industrial clusters entrepreneurial incubator system for three difference kinds of clusters:"government-led" cluster, industry association-led cluster and university-oriented cluster was empirically researched and the coordination enhancement strategy for different types of cluster is proposed, to construct the integration model of the coordination process of the industrial cluster entrepreneurial incubation systemThe purpose of this study is to explore the interaction and coordination process of the industrial clusters in entrepreneurship incubation, revealing the key factors that influencing the entrepreneurial talent incubation performance and its mechanism. The results of this study will enrich the theory of industrial clusters, entrepreneurship and networks; it can also provide a theoretical basis and practical reference for improving the cluster resource utilization efficiency, enhancing the government and the main institutional synergies, to build an effective industry cluster entrepreneurial mechanism.