Analysis And Construction Of Competitive Advantages Of Industrial Clusters

Long ago, there have been industrial clusters in the word. Such as the brede in Suzhou in the ancient era, electronic industry in Guangdong Dongguan, gym shoes industry in Fujian Jinjiang, Garment industry in Quanzhou, shoe leather industry in Zhejiang Wenzhou, nowadays. Generally speaking, if there is an industry, the industry will become bigger and bigger. Agglomeration is a common economic phenomenon."Industrial clusters"is a hot topic now. A lot of scholars are interested in studying"Industrial clusters". They are from different fields, including: Economics, Management, Geography, sociology, and so on. In this essay, I want to study the competitive advantages of"Industrial clusters", using economics and management theories.I try to answer two questions: What are the competitive advantages of"Industrial clusters"? How to construct the competitive advantages of"Industrial clusters"? Most of scholars think that the competitive advantages of"Industrial clusters"include: exterior scale economic, innovation system, network effect, intellectual extravasations effect, and so on. In my opinion, the competitive advantages of"Industrial clusters"are from the competitive advantages of enterprises in the clusters. So ,the advantages of"Industrial clusters"include:reducing the cost and differentiating of the products of enterprises. After having analyzed the competitive advantages of"Industrial clusters", I analyzed how to construct the competitive advantages of"Industrial clusters". In my opinion, for constructing the competitive advantages, there should be diamond system in the Industrial clusters, which is introduced by Porter, M.E.There is a case study about gym shoes industrial cluster in Fujian Jinjiang. After analyzing the competitive advantages, I construct a diamond system for gym shoes industrial cluster in Fujian Jinjiang.