Analysis On Inlfuencing Factors Of Chongqing’s IT Industry Based On The Perspective Of Industrial Clusters

Economic regionalization is a phenomenon of the contemporary world, it is also akind of strategy favored by the policy makers. Successful industrial clusters havetremendous accelerated effects on the economic development. As a prioritizeddeveloping industry in the Twelfth Five-Year-Plan of Chongqing, the IT industry is animportant measure for making Chongqing to be the economic center of the upperreaches of the Yangtze River. This paper aims to find out the factors that significantlyaffect the clustering of the IT industry in Chongqing, then advises some pertinently andrelevantly countermeasures and recommendations.Firstly, review is conducted on the related theories of industrial clusters. The aim isto summarize the characteristics, analyze the major theoretical schools, types,development modes, identification methods and measure index of traditional andcontemporary industrial clusters through their clear definitions, so as to form a basis foroutlining the affecting factors and then summarize the factors that affect the IT industry.Secondly, by analyzing and comparing the typical IT industry clusters here andabroad, the similarities and differences among the IT industrial clusters in the U.S.’sSilicon Valley, India’s Bangalore, Zhongguancun and Dongguan are identified, in thehope of providing experience references to the development of Chongqing’s IT industry.This is followed by conducting a regression analysis on Chongqing’s IT industrialcluster to identify the factors that affect significantly the development of its IT industrialcluster. After presenting a profile description of the IT industry in Chongqing, a specificindex survey data is selected by combining the affecting factors of the IT industry andbasing on the individual traits of Chongqing.The improved location quotient isintroduced as the explanatory variables in the regression equation and through itsanalysis, it is found that the number of patent authorizations, Engel Coefficient andforeign trade are the major affecting factors of the development of Chongqing’s ITindustrial cluster.Finally, based on the result of the regression analysis, and from the three aspects ofinnovations,social culture and industrial structure, this paper proposes specificcountermeasures and suggestions to the development of Chongqing’s IT industrialcluster. The countermeasures and suggestions in the aspects of innovations and socialculture are proposed from the perspectives of the government, industrial cluster and the enterprises; while the suggestions on the restructuring of the industry is from theperspectives of the various sub-divisions of the IT industry in Chongqing.