Sustainable Development - Network-based Industrial Park In Zhejiang Province

In Zhejiang province, a large number of industrial park has played a significant role in regional economic development. However, by modern standards, the enterprises in these parks are more or less confronted with the problem of shortage of the capability of innovation, market orientation and resource integration, which hampers the upgrading of industry and sustainable development of the park. So, this thesis want to illuminate how to establish the sustainable development network of the park's, which originated from the embeddedness and networking .The total objective of our thesis is to conclude a reasonable and effective mechanism for the enterprise to develop the capability of innovation, market orientation and resource integration so as to guarantee the sustainable development of the park.By comparing the orientation, resource possession, character and network of the enterprises clusters, which lies in the industrial district in Italy and the industrial park in Zhejiang Province, the thesis show that the similarity can make us learn the developed experience of the foreign country, while the difference urge us to study the characteristic situation of our province. Then we pay attention to the two characteristic gist of the industrial park-embeddedness and networking. Based on the foreign scholars' research, we proved that the network form of governance is a response to exchange conditions of asset specificity, demand uncertainty, task complexity and frequency. These exchange conditions drive firms toward structurally embedding their transactions. Structural embeddedness enables the use of social mechanisms for coordinating and safe guarding exchanges. In the other hand, some structural properties of interfirm of networks, such as appropriate coupling, diversity, redundancy and recursivity have crucial consequences for the adaptability and learning of the network. So based on these researches, the thesis then draw the conclusion that to retain the capability of sustainable development, there must be an overall, mature and well-developed network system in the industrial park. More specifically, because the industrial park is build on the basis of enterprise clusters, so if the enterprise in the park can innovate persistently, adjust their production according to the market information and integrate all kinds of resource, the park can achieve competitive advantage. On the other hand, the enterprise's capability of innovation, market orientation and resource integration depend on the system of network in the industrial park. Therefore, the thesis develop an system of network to support the sustainable development of the industrial park, which includes business network, personal network, labor market network and social culture network.Accompanied with the theoretical exploration, empirical studies are also conducted in the thesis, which are in the form of questionnaire and case study. In a context where empirical investigation regarding the relations between the network and innovation,market orientation are still scanty, this thesis makes contributions to the advancement of knowledge in providing new evidence regarding the impact of the network on innovation and market orientation. The conclusion of above empirical studies has satisfyingly supported the theoretical discussion.Last but not least, the formation and operation of the network system for the sustainable development of industrial park has to need support from an extensive policy system, which is constituted of the policy of clustering enterprises, the policy of coordinating institution and public service institution and the policy of local government. Finally we draw conclusion from three points: the establishment of the innovation system, the developing pattern of the industrial park and the interaction of the industrial park and the regional development.