Study Of The Competitiveness Of Industrial Clusters

The global economy is imperative today; marketing competition has evolved from industry development strategy to industrial cluster strategy. Through cooperative work the competitive advantages of industrial clusters are widely recognized and have become initiatives for one region to be involved in global market competition. The development process of industrial clusters has successes and failures; however, its development is influenced through the internal synergy known as competence. Therefore, this paper attempts to comprehensively analyze and study industrial cluster's competence to find out which factors have influenced industrial cluster competence. It includes the following three sections.Section One Chapter one- Chapter three) addresses basic concepts involved in the research on industrial cluster's competence. It describes the development of industrial clusters around the world, comprehensively explains the background of research on industrial cluster's competence. Finally, it looks back into the process of industrial cluster's competence research.Section Two (Chapter four -Chapter five) addresses the main concept of the research on industrial cluster's competence. First, the paper initially uses a theory of core competence to explain the theoretical rationale and characteristics of industrial cluster's competence. This theoretical rationale builds a research framework which includes knowledge level, policy level, resource level, marketing efficiency level and coordination level, which proceed together and supply each other. Then I made a simple model which could measure the industrial cluster's competence.Section three (chapter six and conclusion) is the further concept of the research on industrial cluster's competence. This section gives an example of the biggest leather industrial cluster in China, Shiling town which could demonstrate the feasibility of the industrial cluster competence model. So we can take use of this...