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Abstract Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to portrait how members of cluster organizations (COs) perceive the role of COs in enabling them to accumulate technological capability (TC) significant for their innovation.... more
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to portrait how members of cluster organizations (COs) perceive the role of COs in enabling them to accumulate technological capability (TC) significant for their innovation.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors report the findings from their qualitative study based on an analysis of four COs. The organizational inertia and absorptive capacity (AC) theories are the theoretical underpinning of the research.
Findings – The study shows that the dynamics of TC of the cluster companies included in the study sample relates to their initial level of TC and cluster cooperation. The companies with relatively low initial TC increase it through COs if the clusters offer comparatively high benefits. On the other hand, those COs’ members that present relatively high initial TC advance it, provided that the external knowledge and other benefits they can absorb in their clusters are suited to their technological trajectories.
Research implications/limitations – The research is preliminary in nature and portrays how firms with different levels of TC cooperate within COs and how this cooperation translates into TC improvements. The findings add to the state-of-the-art knowledge on the link between TC and AC of companies involved in COs by depicting the role of COs in providing knowledge and other cluster benefits that help cluster companies to accumulate TC and improve their AC. Nevertheless, the applied methodology does not allow the authors to generalize the findings.
Practical implications – The coordinators of COs should skillfully shape the levels of cluster cooperation, matching them to the desired level of the cluster companies. They should create smaller subgroups composed of companies with similar TC, which may translate into its higher dynamics.
Originality/value – The knowledge about the role of COs in providing cluster benefits that help cluster companies to accumulate TC and improve their AC is still insufficient. The study shed new light on the key role of the levels of cluster cooperation and the types of commitment related to them (i.e. technological effort), which may be a matter of importance in the dynamics of TC accumulation.
Keywords: Cluster organizations, Technological capability, Absorptive capacity, Cooperation, Organizational inertia
Article Classification: Research paper
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to portrait how members of cluster organizations (COs) perceive the role of COs in enabling them to accumulate technological capability (TC) significant for their innovation.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors report the findings from their qualitative study based on an analysis of four COs. The organizational inertia and absorptive capacity (AC) theories are the theoretical underpinning of the research.
Findings – The study shows that the dynamics of TC of the cluster companies included in the study sample relates to their initial level of TC and cluster cooperation. The companies with relatively low initial TC increase it through COs if the clusters offer comparatively high benefits. On the other hand, those COs’ members that present relatively high initial TC advance it, provided that the external knowledge and other benefits they can absorb in their clusters are suited to their technological trajectories.
Research implications/limitations – The research is preliminary in nature and portrays how firms with different levels of TC cooperate within COs and how this cooperation translates into TC improvements. The findings add to the state-of-the-art knowledge on the link between TC and AC of companies involved in COs by depicting the role of COs in providing knowledge and other cluster benefits that help cluster companies to accumulate TC and improve their AC. Nevertheless, the applied methodology does not allow the authors to generalize the findings.
Practical implications – The coordinators of COs should skillfully shape the levels of cluster cooperation, matching them to the desired level of the cluster companies. They should create smaller subgroups composed of companies with similar TC, which may translate into its higher dynamics.
Originality/value – The knowledge about the role of COs in providing cluster benefits that help cluster companies to accumulate TC and improve their AC is still insufficient. The study shed new light on the key role of the levels of cluster cooperation and the types of commitment related to them (i.e. technological effort), which may be a matter of importance in the dynamics of TC accumulation.
Keywords: Cluster organizations, Technological capability, Absorptive capacity, Cooperation, Organizational inertia
Article Classification: Research paper
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The main purpose of the paper is to analyze and evaluate the selected instruments of innovation policy in Poland: cooperative relations, business environment institutions and innovation centers, supported within Priority Axis V of OP IE... more
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze and evaluate the selected instruments of innovation policy in Poland: cooperative relations, business environment institutions and innovation centers, supported within Priority Axis V of OP IE 2007-2013. The evaluation was made on the basis of the four criteria: complementarity, adapting to the needs of businesses, the impact on the innovation and durability of the provided support. The study was conducted from the perspective of institutions providing support as well as companies benefiting from this support. The results of the study indicate relatively high complementarity of the applied instruments. The differences were evident in terms of adapting them to the needs of entrepreneurs and their impact on innovations, taking into account also a longer period of time. The best results were achieved with regard to the innovation centers, while the other instruments featured weaknesses that reduce the expected results of the provided support.
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The main aim of the paper is the analysis of the effects of actions undertaken so far that have aimed at shaping brand awareness of the parks in Eastern Poland supported under the Operational Programme Development of Eastern Poland. The... more
The main aim of the paper is the analysis of the effects of actions undertaken so far that have aimed at shaping brand awareness of the parks in Eastern Poland supported under the Operational Programme Development of Eastern Poland. The authors focused on the demand-side perspective and scrutinized two vectors of conscious branding: the surrounding environment and communication with customers. The group of potential customers underwent qualitative research (ITI interviews). The research in the group of the actual customers was conducted by means of quantitative methods (CAPI and CATI interviews). The results of the study indicate the lack of knowledge of the parks' functioning, the lack of awareness of the benefits that could be achieved while cooperating with parks, low effectiveness of the existing forms of promotion of the parks, but also the high needs for innovation support among entrepreneurs. On the basis of the study results, the authors formulated recommendations for improving the promotion of parks.
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Streszczenie angielskie: Nowadays, clusters based on Alfred Marshall's" industrial districts" are considered to be one of the main drivers of regional competitiveness. According to Porter an industrial cluster is" a geographic cooperative... more
Streszczenie angielskie: Nowadays, clusters based on Alfred Marshall's" industrial districts" are considered to be one of the main drivers of regional competitiveness. According to Porter an industrial cluster is" a geographic cooperative group that includes suppliers, consumers, peripheral industries, governments and supporting institutions such as universities".
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Streszczenie: Celem niniejszej publikacji jest analiza uwarunkowań rozwoju klastrów w województwie dolnośląskim. Autorka analizuje region Dolnego Śląska, wskazując sektory przemysłu i usług stanowiące istotne koncentracje branżowe o... more
Streszczenie: Celem niniejszej publikacji jest analiza uwarunkowań rozwoju klastrów w województwie dolnośląskim. Autorka analizuje region Dolnego Śląska, wskazując sektory przemysłu i usług stanowiące istotne koncentracje branżowe o największym potencjale „gronotwórczym”, oraz identyfikuje powstałe w regionie inicjatywy klastrowe. Ponadto przedstawia strategiczne programy realizowane na Dolnym Śląsku, istotne z punktu widzenia rozwoju klastrów: Strategię Rozwoju Województwa Dolnośląskiego, ...