Internationalization intensity of clusters and their impact on firm internationalization: the case of Poland

Jankowska, Barbara; Götz, Marta

doi:10.1080/09654313.2017.1296111

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“…Clusters fulfill the public role as an intermediary of an innovation cooperation and a potential central element of a fourth industrial revolution ecosystem, but the need to finance open innovation activities from very limited resources of their member contributions means that they must limit their activities in this area. Models of financing innovative activity in transition economies, such as Poland, include very weak incentives for open innovation cooperation, compared to the developed countries and their cluster policies [67,68].…”

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“…The findings of the study provide an insight into the barriers faced by clusters as open innovation intermediaries. This article has argued that the concept of open innovation, as it was originally coined, and as it has been applied by clusters, can become one of the pillars for implementing the concept of the fourth industrial revolution [68]. For companies, it is often necessary to eschew familiar management styles in favor of a non-traditional method-instead of attempting to control knowledge, actors need to acknowledge and manage the ecosystem within which they can co-innovate [69,70].…”

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Trouble in Paradise? Barriers to Open Innovation in Regional Clusters in the Era of the 4th Industrial Revolution

McPhillips

2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into the barriers faced by clusters as open innovation intermediaries. Literature review and an empirical study were performed, involving a nation-wide survey, case studies, and in-depth interviews with cluster actors involved in open innovation activities. This article conceptually links open innovation and clusters in the context of the fourth industrial revolution, empirically identifies barriers hindering open innovation in clusters, and indicates factors that might affect the open innovation processes in networked ecosystems. The findings confirm that the perception of barriers hindering open innovation in clusters differs between clusters already implementing open innovation and those which are still not active in this area. The findings contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the potential roles of clusters as open innovation intermediaries in the context of transitioning economies. With clusters playing a role in open innovation intermediary, public support at cluster level could increase openness to cooperation not only for member companies, but all participants in the regional innovation ecosystem.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Trouble in Paradise? Barriers to Open Innovation in Regional Clusters in the Era of the 4th Industrial Revolution

McPhillips

2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…The following control variables are also included: the entrepreneur’s level of education, experience as an entrepreneur (number of years), sector of operation (dummy variables for manufacturing, services, trade, and construction), and firm size (measured as number of employees). Additionally, we control for participation in industrial clusters as a proxy for the firm’s connections/networks within its industry, since recent research suggests that relationships with other firms and institutions in the cluster are essential aspects in promoting access to international markets (e.g., Gancarczyk and Gancarczyk ; Islankina and Thurner ; Jankowska and Götz ; Tomás‐Miquel et al ). Descriptive statistics and correlations among variables are presented in Table .…”

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Democratizing Entrepreneurship? Digital Technologies and the Internationalization of Female-Led SMEs

Pergelova¹,

Manolova²,

Simeonova‐Ganeva³

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Journal of Small Business Management

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This study examines how digital technologies affect the international expansion of female-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Digital technologies have the potential to democratize entrepreneurship by providing access to international market knowledge and facilitating interactions with customers and partners. Building on the original Penrosean specification of the resource-based view and the notion of versatility of resources, we propose that digital technologies impact positively SME internationalization through the mediation of international market intelligence. Furthermore, we posit that female entrepreneurs will leverage the enabling effects of digital technologies more than their male counterparts. The hypotheses are tested on a representative sample of 300 Bulgarian SMEs. Implications for policy and research are advanced.

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“…In turn, Jankowska and Götz (2017) studied the internationalization of clusters on the example of creative clusters (cf. Jankowska & Götz, 2017). Among papers devoted to creative clusters in Central and Eastern Europe is that by Bialic-Davendra et al (2016) dealing with the condition and operating strategy of creative clusters.…”

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Barriers to the development of creative clusters in Poland

Namyślak

2020

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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Creativity is one of the factors promoting the development of urban centres. Its significance provokes discussion on issues such as the creative city, creative industries and creative clusters, and it contributes to the increased demand for multidisciplinary research on economic, social and artistic policy. The paper is devoted to creative industries clusters located in Poland. Its main goal is to identify the factors that hinder the operation of the analysed clusters. The observed factors are broken down into endogenous and exogenous ones, as well as into those that emerged during cluster mobilization and others which surfaced later during the clusters' existence. The survey was conducted among creative cluster coordinators, using computer-assisted web interview (CAWI) and computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). The results show that most of the problems mentioned by respondents are internal factors, of which the most important one is a misunderstanding of the idea of clustering and the resulting reluctance to share knowledge, as well as the dominance of competition over cooperation, frowned-upon movements of employees between cluster participants, and the consequent diminished trust. External barriers were revealed mainly in further periods of the clusters' operation. The most important of them was a dependence on external funding. Respondents pointed to a lack of interest on the part of local government units, which makes it difficult to build a properly functioning triple helix. It should also be added that cluster policy in Poland has been moving away from clusters understood in geographical terms where spatial concentration and economic specialization were the key features. Currently, cluster policy is directed more towards managing cluster structures.

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Internationalization intensity of clusters and their impact on firm internationalization: the case of Poland

Cited by 20 publications

References 72 publications

Trouble in Paradise? Barriers to Open Innovation in Regional Clusters in the Era of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Trouble in Paradise? Barriers to Open Innovation in Regional Clusters in the Era of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Democratizing Entrepreneurship? Digital Technologies and the Internationalization of Female-Led SMEs

Barriers to the development of creative clusters in Poland

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