Recent research on competitiveness and clusters: what are the implications for regional policy?

Ketels, Christian H.M.

doi:10.1093/cjres/rst008

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“…Samspil innan klasa felur í sér að fyrirtaeki og stofnanir geta baett stöðu sína og laðað til sín haeft starfsfólk um leið og klasasamstarfið ýtir undir miðlun þekkingar, taeknikunnáttu og annarra hagnýtra upplýsinga (Lindqvist, Ketels og Sölvell, 2012). Virkur klasi stuðlar að verðmaetasköpun og samkeppnishaefni fyrirtaekjanna og hefur einnig jákvaeð áhrif á stofnanirnar sem starfa innan klasans (Ketels, 2013). Þetta allt stuðlar að eflingu og hagvexti á viðkomandi svaeði (Porter, 1998(Porter, , 2003Delgado o.fl., 2014).…”

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“…Niðurstöður demantsgreiningar benda til þess að það séu þegar margir þaettir sem ýta undir jákvaeða þróun klasans en líka þaettir sem vinna þarf með til að efla klasann frekar. Demantsgreiningin varpar ljósi á aðstaeður klasans og greinilegt er að meiri fjölbreytni og dýpt í þeim þáttum sem víddir demantsins draga fram skilar baeði virkari og öflugri klösum (Porter, 1990(Porter, , 2008Sölvell, 2008;Ketels, 2013).…”

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Einkenni og áskoranir tónlistarklasa á Íslandi

Gunnlaugsdóttir¹,

Steinþórsson²

2017

TVE

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ÁgripÞessi grein fjallar um þróun tónlistarlífs á Íslandi á undanförnum árum. Margir íslenskir tónlistarmenn hafa átt velgengi að fagna og skapað sér nafn á alþjóðlegum markaði. Stjórnvöld hafa stutt við þróunina á ýmsan hátt og þau hafa mikil áhrif á tónlistarlífið. Umsvifin í greininni benda til að þróunin undanfarin ár hafi ýtt undir myndun klasa í tónlist á Íslandi. Markmiðið með þessari grein er að rannsaka þróun tónlistarlífs á Íslandi út frá kenningum um klasa og samkeppnishaefni. Einnig er þróunin á Íslandi borin saman við þekkta tónlistarklasa erlendis. Byggt er á raundaemisrannsókn þar sem spurt er að hvaða marki megi líta á tónlist á Íslandi sem klasa og ef svo er á hvaða stigi klasaþróunar íslenskur tónlistarklasi kunni að vera. Einnig er spurt um hvaða áskoranir tónlistarklasinn kunni að standa frammi fyrir. Niðurstöður gefa til kynna skýrar vísbendingar um tónlistarklasa á Íslandi og að klasinn sé að faerast af mótunarstigi yfir á þróunarstig. Í niðurstöðum felst hagnýtt gildi því varpað er ljósi á atriði og aðstaeður sem geta ýtt undir frekari uppbyggingu á sterkum tónlistarklasa á Íslandi. Samhliða er tónlistarklasinn daemi um klasa í litlu fámennu landi og niðurstöðurnar framlag til þekkingar á klasa í slíkum aðstaeðum. AbstractMusic as part of creative industries in Iceland has been on a positive growth path. Many musicians from Iceland have been succesful in establishing their name and brand internationally. The government has played a critical role in the growth of the music field. There are manifestations that provide support for the existence of a music cluster in Iceland. The purpose of this article is to study the music field from a cluster perspective and reflect on the development with reference to well known music clusters abroad. On the basis of a case study method and cluster assessment tools it is analysed to what extent it is possible to confirm the existence of a music cluster in Iceland. There are clear indications of a music cluster and it is concluded that the music cluster can be described as a potential cluster. The context of the cluster can also be seen as positive for further development but there are many challenges identified. JEL flokkun: M1, M2

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Einkenni og áskoranir tónlistarklasa á Íslandi

Gunnlaugsdóttir¹,

Steinþórsson²

2017

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“…UNIDO too (2010, p. 4) observes that with respect to pro-poor growth strategy, cluster approach can be a valuable tool to tackle poverty and lay the ground for a process of broad-based growth 2 . Although clusters enjoy popularity, they are criticised too (Ketels, 2013). Brakman and Van Marrewijk (2013) argue that criticism of the cluster concept in academic literature explains why cluster policies hardly work in practice.…”

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Multivariate analysis of the Croatian clusters

Obadić

Tijanić

2014

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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Clusters have an important role in fostering regional and national economic development. Clustering can help the members to take advantages of the benefits discussed in this article. The aim of the article is to identify the reasons why some of the cluster members in Croatia do not recognise the benefits of clustering? In this article the authors use a multivariate analysis to obtain results to confirm if there are significant differences among firms that: (1) think that clustering helps them; (2) believe that the idea is good but does not function in practice; and (3) consider that clusters are not necessary. Our analysis suggests that different attitudes toward satisfaction with exchange of information, joint promotion, education and market research are the main reasons why these observed cluster members differ. The result of our study can be useful in formulating policies for the future cluster development programmes in Croatia.

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“…D'Agostino (2013) studies the relationship between a region's home and foreign investments in R&D that affects home's regional knowledge production. Recent researches on competitiveness and clusters for regions and regional policy show that policies are mostly focused on strengthening existing agglomerations rather than establishing new ones (Ketels 2013). The concept of creating shared value which is emphasized by scholars in cluster studies has also been criticized for several reasons, such as not being original, ignoring tension between social and economic goals, being naive about the challenges of business compliance and having basis of shallow conception of the corporation's role in society.…”

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“…Different methods are applied in order to analyze qualitative and quantitative data, such as correlation and regression analysis (Casanueva et al 2013;Lai et al 2014;Tavassoli, Carbonara 2014;Crespo et al 2014;D'Angelo et al 2013), gravitation model (Castellani et al 2013), case analysis (Ben Lafeita and Rabeu 2013;Boschma et al 2013;Bouncken and Kraus 2013;Carswell 2013;Lorenzen, Mudambi 2013;Tokatli 2013;Dobusch and Schussler 2013;Morrison et al 2013) or literature analysis (Crane et al 2014;D'Agostino et al 2013;Maskell 2014;Feldman 2014;D'Este et al 2013;Ketels 2013). The problem of providing the most effective way to evaluate the data of different phenomena, which are mentioned in clusters' studies, could be by performing a quantitative evaluation of clusters' performance ).…”

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Towards Competitive Regional Development Through Clusters: Approaches to Their Performance Evaluation

Tvaronavičienė¹,

Razminienė²

2017

JOC

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It is notable that the interest in clusters and their role in sustainable regional development are increasing as scholars often review this topic. Valuable observations are made on how the clusters should be researched in order to improve their performance which would result in economic growth both on regional and national scale. Clusters' performance is complicated to evaluate as the measures of the aspects that must be calculated differ and the most appropriate solution to formalize these aspects should be found. Different multi-criteria evaluation methods are suggested by scholars for a quantitative evaluation of performance of a certain phenomenon. This study attempts to present the clusters' performance evaluation by applying the multi-criteria SAW method. Seven clusters from Lithuania and Latvia were examined to serve the purpose of this study. The multi-criteria analysis could be used as a method in further evaluation of clusters' performance for it is comprehensible, easy to apply, helpful in the data evaluation of different measures and it provides adequate results, which is very important in a quantitative analysis. The results suggest that processes are very important in clusters' performance evaluation for clusters which show good results with processes, stay in high positions, whereas clusters which are keeping behind with processes show worse results in their performance. The study still needs to be supplemented by more clusters to obtain specific information and to elaborate on more specific clusters' performance evaluation methods.

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Recent research on competitiveness and clusters: what are the implications for regional policy?

Cited by 126 publications

References 44 publications

Einkenni og áskoranir tónlistarklasa á Íslandi

Einkenni og áskoranir tónlistarklasa á Íslandi

Multivariate analysis of the Croatian clusters

Towards Competitive Regional Development Through Clusters: Approaches to Their Performance Evaluation

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