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What drives the effectiveness of industrial clusters? Exploring the impact of contextual, structural and functioning determinants

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  • Elisabeth F. Mueller
  • Carola Jungwirth

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This study examines how contextual, structural and functioning characteristics of industrial clusters influence their effectiveness. We develop a conceptual framework that identifies potential influencing factors, validate the factors statistically, and estimate the factors’ impact on cluster effectiveness. Our results show that among the important determinants of cluster effectiveness are long-term planning security and procedural trust among the cooperating firms (contextual conditions), formalized rules and sustainable structures (structural elements), and clear goals and tasks (functioning characteristics). However, the results also reveal that some determinants assessed as important in the literature do not seem to have a positive impact on effectiveness. Our results not only modify general assumptions in cluster research concerning the drivers of cluster effectiveness, but also assist firms and policy-makers in conceptualizing successful new clusters.

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  • Elisabeth F. Mueller & Carola Jungwirth, 2016. "What drives the effectiveness of industrial clusters? Exploring the impact of contextual, structural and functioning determinants," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(5-6), pages 424-447, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:entreg:v:28:y:2016:i:5-6:p:424-447
    DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2016.1186748
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    2. Anna Yström & Hedvig Aspenberg, 2017. "Open For Innovation? Practices Supporting Collaboration In Swedish Regional Clusters," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 21(05), pages 1-28, June.
    3. Stephanie Scott & Mathew Hughes & Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano, 2022. "Towards a network-based view of effective entrepreneurial ecosystems," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 157-187, January.
    4. Anastasiia Konstantynova & Tine Lehmann, 2017. "Cluster Activities in Different Institutional Environments. Case Studies of ICT-Clusters from Austria, Germany, Ukraine and Serbia," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(2), pages 1-15, May.
    5. Daniel Feser, 2023. "Innovation intermediaries revised: a systematic literature review on innovation intermediaries’ role for knowledge sharing," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 17(5), pages 1827-1862, July.

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