Innovation Performance and Clusters [electronic resource] : A Dynamic Capability Perspective on Regional Technology Clusters /
Röttmer, Nicole.author.
Developed economies require high levels of innovativeness to sustain economic growth. Clusters are one of the building blocks of the European Commission’s innovation strategy. However, they are often not as innovative as expected. While strong quantitative insights into the resource base of successful clusters exist, evidence on soft success factors is anecdotal and dispersed across research streams. Nicole Röttmer sets out to identify and describe these capabilities, their impact on cluster innovativeness in the interplay with (proprietary) cluster resources and their development over time in a comprehensive, dynamic model. In a cross-case setting, she illustrates the applicability of dynamic capabilities to a network setting and the impact of capabilities on cluster performance, providing an impetus for a change in cluster development policies and cluster management practices.
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Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Motivation and Problem Statement; 1.2 Research Objective and Research Question; 1.3 Research Epistemology and Methodology; 1.4 Expected Results and Contribution; 1.5 Structure of the Study; 2 Grounding in the Literature: Innovativeness of Regions and Firms; 2.1 Defining Innovativeness and Technology Clusters; 2.1.1 Defining Innovativeness; 2.1.2 Defining Technology Clusters; 2.2 Regional Innovativeness: Structural and Socio-Cultural Elements as Driving Forces
2.2.1 The Cluster Concept and its Driving Forces of Innovativeness2.2.2 The Concept of Regional Innovation Systems and its Driving Forces of Innovativeness; 2.2.3 The Concept of Innovative Milieux and their Driving Forces of Innovativeness; 2.2.4 The Concept of Regional Networks and their Driving Forces of Innovativeness; 2.3 The Concept of Dynamic Capabilities: A Comprehensive View on Structural and Socio-Economic Drivers of Firm Innovativeness; 2.3.1 A Dynamic Capability Model of Firm Innovativeness: The Role of the Context, Assets, Routines, Dynamic Capabilities and Inn
2.3.2 Characterizing Dynamic Capabilities2.3.3 Defining and Operationalizing Dynamic Capabilities; 3 Clusters and Innovation Capabilities: Deriving and Operationalizing a Priori Constructs; 3.1 Deriving Constructs Required for Understanding Cluster Innovation Capabilities; 3.2 Capturing Existing Constructs: Context, Innovativeness and Performance; 3.2.1 Specifying and Operationalizing Cluster Context; 3.2.2 Specifying and Operationalizing Cluster Innovativeness and Performance; 3.3 Deriving a Priori Constructs from the Literature: Assets and Cluster Innovation Capabilities
3.3.1 Feasibility of Deriving the Constructs Assets and Cluster Innovation Capabilities from the Literature3.3.2 Deriving Literature-based Evidence on Assets; 3.3.3 Deriving Literature-based Evidence on Cluster Innovation Capabilities; 3.4 Operationalizing the a Priori Constructs: Assets and Innovation Capabilities; 3.4.1 Operationalizing Cluster Assets; 3.4.2 Operationalizing Cluster Innovation Capabilities; 3.4.2.1 Operationalization through Perceived Existence; 3.4.2.2 Operationalization through the Observation of Cluster Routines
4 Designing a Research Effort into the Innovativeness of Regional Satellite Navigation Application Clusters4.1 Selection of Sample; 4.1.1 Selection of Technological Field: GALILEO as a Satellite Navigation Technology Shock; 4.1.2 Market Potential introduced by GALILEO; 4.1.3 Selection of Clusters; 4.1.4 Selection of Respondents; 4.2 Data Collection and Analysis; 4.2.1 Data Collection Method; 4.2.2 Data Analysis; 5 Case Study Results; 5.1 Description of the Sample; 5.2 Single Case Analysis; 5.2.1 Cluster ALPHA; 5.2.1.1 Cluster Context; 5.2.1.2 Cluster Assets
5.2.1.3 Perceived Cluster Innovation Capabilities and Observation of Routines
Dissertation--University of Leiden, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references.
Developed economies require high levels of innovativeness to sustain economic growth. Clusters are one of the building blocks of the European Commission’s innovation strategy. However, they are often not as innovative as expected. While strong quantitative insights into the resource base of successful clusters exist, evidence on soft success factors is anecdotal and dispersed across research streams. Nicole Röttmer sets out to identify and describe these capabilities, their impact on cluster innovativeness in the interplay with (proprietary) cluster resources and their development over time in a comprehensive, dynamic model. In a cross-case setting, she illustrates the applicability of dynamic capabilities to a network setting and the impact of capabilities on cluster performance, providing an impetus for a change in cluster development policies and cluster management practices.
Management.
Industrial management.
Innovation/Technology Management.
Management.