Theoretical And Empirical Research On Industrial Clusters Of Development Zones

Since 1980's, capturing the opportunity of the world's industries transfer, Chinahas built many industry parks which have good performance during past twentyyears. At the same time, these industry parks still have some problems. The biggestproblem is many companies just concentrate in parks but lack well layout and"Agglomeration Economics". Recently, no matter in practice or in theory, industrycluster attracts much attention because it can give birth to "AgglomerationEconomics" and evidently promote the development of regional economy. Industrialclusters are groups of inter-related firms and organizations involved in a sameindustry producing goods and services and innovating in a geographic concentratedarea. This industrial organization has unusual economic advantages because it drivescompetent industries and firms creation. Many countries in the world adoptdeveloping Science and Technology Parks (S&T Parks) policy to develop new andhigh technologies and industries. Industry cluster affords a new angle of view forindustry parks' development. Along with putting forward the strategic target ofconstructing nation of innovational type, the second development of Hi-tech zonewill enter a period of overall promotion. To carry out the second development ofHi-tech zone is a problem relating to the whole national economy. A developmentzone as a carrier can serve to implement the strategy of industrial cluster whichconforms to the demands of times so as to further enhance its regional competitivepower and to speed up its economics development as well.The thesis comparatively applies relevant theories of industrial economics,regional economics, development economics, industrial geography, economicgeography, system economics, governmental economics, enterprise management andetc. Talking the theory on industrial clusters from home and abroad as its maintheoretical foundation, it adopts the methods of systematic analysis, comparativeanalysis, actual case study,induction and deduction, classification analysis,combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis, combination of static anddynamic situations, integration of theory with practice, and integration of historyand logic and etc, systematically analyzes the relevancy between industrial clustersand economic development. It constructs a tentative frame of theories and policies of industrial clusters. It analyzes industrial clusters' mechanism and policies.The research outspreads nine parts. The first part states the background, thepurpose and the present situation of the industrial clusters and development zone.Chapter2 summarizes the theory of development zone, which includes itsconnotation, forms and the process of development zone, and then analyzes thetheory and practices of development zone abroad, finding the gap between Chinaand other developed countries and regions. In chapter 3, based on study of presentresearch, this paper discusses competitive advantages and inherent mechanism, putsforward to the necessity of research of industry cluster in hi-tech zones and pointsout that the industry cluster is the key that Hi-tech zones carry out the seconddevelopment In Chapter4, this paper discusses the possibility and their mutualmotivation between industry cluster and development zone from the view ofIndustrial Ecologization, game theory and industrial structure theory; based onanalysis of Chapter3 and Chapter4,the next two chapters underlines thedevelopment mood and mechanism of industrial cluster in developmentzone,besides,these chapters points out the role of government in this mood. InChapter7, this paper discusses the system of evaluation of the performance ofdevelopment zones. At last, based on the analysis above and the present situation ofOptical Valley in Wuhan, Hubei province, the author estimates the performance ofoptical industrial clusters in Optical Valley, and puts forward to the advices about thegovernment, the mood and the policies of optical industrial clusters in OpticalValley.