Producer Services Industry Cluster

Producer services, means the services provided for the manufacturing process, while not for final consumers. Recently, producer services clusters became more and more popular in the worldwide. More and more countries endeavored to push the development of producers'services clusters, and take it as their strategic plan to achieve a steady and rapid regional economic growth and clusters growth. Same happened in Yangtze River Delta. Under this background, this paper focuses on two aspects; one is the discussion on the theories of producers'services clusters'stimulus factors and development module. The other one is empirical research for producers'services clusters'growth path and development module in Yangtze River Delta. Accordingly this paper includes theoretical part and empirical part. The theoretical part includes Chapter l,2,3 and 4, which summarized for current researches on producers'services clusters and raised a formation system on the theory of producer services clusters'development path. The empirical part includes Chapter 5, 6 and 7, which performed the researches for producers'services clusters'growth path and development module in Yangtze River Delta, based on the formation system raised in theoretical part.In Chapter 2 and 3, this paper summarized the current theories of producers'services clusters'stimulus factors, and development module, raised a formation system of producers'services clusters'stimulus factors, which includes two aspects, internal aspect and external aspect. Internal aspects include externalities, value chains and technical innovation. Traffic, logistic, telecomm, utilities and professional human resources caused externalities of the clusters. Externalities are the basic stimulus factors of producers'services clusters. Value chain is the base of producers'services clusters'formation. In a certain region, if a leading industry emerged, many relative companies, institutions will move to this region and clusters emerged accordingly. Technical innovation is the core stimulus factor of producers'services clusters. The demand of latest technical innovation and requirement of face-to-face communication cased producers'services clusters. External aspects include government behavior and regional environment. Proper government behaviors can avoid and control the negative externalities in producers'services clusters, to make the clusters more efficiency and effective. Regional environment include utilities environment, technical innovation environment, culture environment and regulation innovation environment. These four factors affected each other and both of them have hugeimpact on the formation and growth of producer's service clusters. In Chapter 4, based on the framework raised in theoretical part, this paper summarized three main producer's service clusters'development module. There are self-development clusters, external-stimulus clusters and clusters stimulated both by internal aspects and external aspects. After then, this paper analyzed typical producer service clusters– Silicon Valley information technical service clusters and London finance clusters. The analysis was performed based on the producer service cluster formation and development module. On the contrary, the analysis was also an examination on the producer services stimulus factors module.In Chapter 5, this paper performed empirical research for producer services cluster in Yangtze River Delta. Paper also focused on the analysis on the typical producer services cluster in this region– Lujiazui finance cluster. Via empirical research, we found there are some negative factors during the consistent development of producer services clusters. Technical innovation is a significant negative factor. Although the status of technical innovation in Yangtze River Delta is better than other regions in PRC, but technical innovation in this region still has a large space to improve comparing with developed western countries. Technical innovation is the core stimulus factor of producers'services clusters. So Yangtze River Delta should endeavor to improve the technical innovation. During the empirical research, we also noted Yangtze River Delta is a very big region, so better association relationship between these producer service clusters is very important to the consistent development of producer service clusters and regional economics. This paper examined 16 main cities in Yangtze River Delta, and divided them into three cat orgies based on the importance of these 16 cities. Also, this paper performed empirical research on association relationship of logistic clusters in Yangtze River Delta, summarized the status of association, point out the main problems existed. Empirical research showed that there are many clusters in Yangtze River Delta, better association relationship is very important to the consistent development of producer service clusters and regional economics.In chapter 6, this paper figured out the strategic development plan of producer service clusters in Yangtze River Delta, based on the theory research and empirical research. This paper pointed out the proper development module of producer service clusters, and gave several suggestions on the government regulations.