The Study On The Regional Economic Effects Of The Industrial Cluster

The industrial cluster is a prevalent phenomenon in today's regional economy, which obtains a tremendous success either in the high-tech or the traditional fields, becoming a vital way to acquire competitive advantages for countries and regions. With the appearing of the cluster, new classical economics, classical regional economics, traditional microeconomics and modern organization theory all face to enormous challenges in theoretic interpretation. Taking the industrial cluster as the subject, from the perspective of its economic effects, the normative analysis with the empirical analysis, theory with practice, dynamic with static are combined and the methods of comparative analysis used, uniting our practice of regional economic development and pertinent knowledge from the western economics, industrial economics, space economics, and development economics to deeply discuss the economic effects of industrial cluster. It will help us to enrich the content of the economics, offer a new idea of regional competitiveness analysis, and provide a theoretical explanation for the phenomenon of an industrial cluster; while it will help to raise the competitive advantage of regional industries in practice, promote the growth of regional economy and impulse the coordinated development of regional economy.This issue is discussed from four aspects: Firstly, the basic research of inherent features and formative factors of industrial cluster. It is to establish the logical starting point and construct a theoretic framework for the industrial cluster, at the same time an issue is exposed: the distance will change the center of cluster, incurring non-balanced development of regional economy. Secondly, the explanation of some theories, including the formation mechanisms of the economic effects, the agglomeration effects, and the knowledge overflow effects. Industrial cluster is a spatial form of increasing return that results from specialized division, an institutional arrangement to reduce transaction costs and the result of the special priority of social capital. The agglomeration effects are core economic issues of an industrial cluster. Once there is a lower transportation costs, greater differences between various industries and a high returns to scale, enterprises will be able to gather in one region, which can promote local economy; in addition, the degree of the returns to scale is higher, the social values of agglomeration are greater. Knowledge overflow effects which impose the advantage of innovation are the vital issues of analysis of economic effects while the human capital flows, cooperation among the enterprises and the derivative of enterprises are all the results of knowledge overflow. Thirdly, the comparative research and cases analysis of the economic effects. It demonstrates the representative cases of international high-tech industrial cluster, non-balance developing in local regional economy and the practice of industrial cluster's development to test the effect of industry cluster. Lastly, the measures to enhance the economic effects. In order to develop regional economy, it is important to accelerate the general adoption of the market principle, create a favorable institutional environment and regional innovation systems, to comprehensively enhance the competitiveness of industrial cluster and achieve the coordinated development of the regional economy.The main conclusions of this paper are: Firstly, the centralization of supply chain is the starting point and the enterprises' levels and degrees in agglomeration are the foundation to analyze industrial cluster. Secondly, the better of the economic effects of industrial clusters must be achieved by possessing the regional factors, the increasing returns, externality, product...