Abstract
The cluster has shown its powerful competitive advantages in global competition. However, as amounts of industrial clusters have displayed their competence, some have lost their competitive advantages in global competition. It is meaningful for clusters’ development to cultivate their sustainable competence. This paper analyzes the sources of cluster competence. According this paper, the important ways to make cluster competence sustainable include transferring and sharing knowledge, making innovation in the cluster, absorbing knowledge from other outer sources, and cultivating unique and exclusive knowledge innovation capability that is differing from other clusters. This paper advances two ways for clusters achieving the transformation from closed knowledge system to open one: firstly, cultivate the capability of absorbing new knowledge from other local knowledge sources; secondly, improve the capability of knowledge share and innovation in the cluster.
Highlights
Since Marshall studied the cluster phenomenon, relevant discussion concerning with cluster competence has gained numerous attentions
At different phases of cluster’s life cycle, the important ways to sustain cluster’s openness for the sake of extending its life cycle include knowledge transfer, share and innovation, absorbing knowledge from outer sources, and cultivating unique and exclusive knowledge innovation capability that is differing from other clusters
The cultivation of cluster’s sustainable competence emphasizes on knowledge gatekeeper absorbing new knowledge from outer sources, and the knowledge share among members in one cluster and the cultivation of innovation capability
Summary
Since Marshall studied the cluster phenomenon, relevant discussion concerning with cluster competence has gained numerous attentions. Jiankang Huang (2004, p39-71) discusses the cultivation of industrial cluster’s sustainable competence from an angle of competitive advantage rigidity. Pekka Yi Anttila thinks that cluster competence is coming from its innovation, learning, resource integration, and capability, emphasizing on improving productivity and innovation performance, exerting positive specialized effect, pushing positive externality and knowledge overflow (Pekka ,2004). Based on these researches and combined with theories of knowledge management, this paper discusses the cultivation of industrial cluster’s sustainable competence
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