SME Innovation within the Australian Wine Industry: A Cluster Analysis

Aylward, David; Glynn, John

doi:10.5172/ser.14.1.42

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“…As expected, the Customer is more contributing to entering new markets for the traditional food product' than the food plants manufacturers, thus confirming results from other studies that found that the customers are usually more internationally oriented (Theuvsen, 2004) and that an international market orientation of any member of the chain enhance the innovation capacity of the supply chain as a whole (Aylward and Glynn, 2006;Gellynck et al, 2007). Furthermore, the Customer in the food machinery supply chain is larger sized, result that is perfectly in line with other studies, which stressed that the company size is positively related to the innovation capacity (Avermaete et al, 2003(Avermaete et al, , 2004Coppola and Pascucci, 2008).…”

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Open innovation and supply chain management in food machinery supply chain: a case study

Bigliardi¹,

Bottani²,

Galati³

2011

Int. J. Eng. Sci. Tech

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Supply chains continue to growth in complexity, including numerous echelons and numerous players per echelon. Consequently, a company needs to integrate its activities with suppliers and customers, in order to survive. Innovation is a typical example of activity that a company should share with suppliers and customers. In particular, over the last few years, a specific concept of "open innovation" has been paving the way in the innovation management field. This paradigm describes a new approach to internal R&D management, which assumes that firms can and should use external ideas and internal ones, as well as internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology. The aim of this paper is to provide insights toward open innovation practices in a specific supply chain, the food machinery one, moved by the consideration that there is little empirical evidence of open innovation strategies within this context. By means of case studies and semi-structured interviews, we examine a three-echelon supply chain, thus providing a picture of the adoption of open innovation in the food machinery industry. Results show that the actors that more adopt this new paradigm are manufacturer and customer, although all the three actors investigated agreed in defining the benefits derived from innovation and open innovation mechanisms. From this study, theoretical and practical implications can be derived and transferred to the whole food machinery industry.

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Section: Conclusion and Recommendationssupporting

confidence: 87%

Open innovation and supply chain management in food machinery supply chain: a case study

Bigliardi¹,

Bottani²,

Galati³

2011

Int. J. Eng. Sci. Tech

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“…The presence of supporting institutions may positively impact the upgrading of other firms in the local system by not only helping to streamline production and reduce transportation costs, but also enhancing competitiveness through fostering innovation in joint developments. Additionally, the local presence or absence of other industries with activities that are either related or complementary to the cluster's activities can profoundly influence the cluster's competitiveness and innovativeness (Aylward & Glynn, 2006;Miller, So & Williamson, 2011).…”

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Effect of Clustering and Collaboration on Product Innovativeness: The Case of Manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya

Gudda¹,

Bwisa²,

Kihoro³

2013

IJARBSS

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The study aimed at determining the effect of clustering and collaboration on product innovativeness (PI) in the context of manufacturing SMEs in Kisumu, Kenya. To answer the questions this empirical study raised, a sample of 126 SMEs on the basis of the manufacturing hubs of Kisumu, Kenya. This study provided evidence in support of clustering and collaboration on product innovativeness. Further research is needed to confirm and extend the present results by replicating the principal features of this study with SMEs in other regions within Kenya. The conclusions drawn from this study could inform efforts in designing different supportive actions for different cluster manufacturing SMEs based on their product knowledge gaps within the wider innovation policy initiatives.

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“…Australia is too large, so there can be not only one cluster of wine producers, but wine industry as a whole has successfully cooperated with a common strategy for the sole purpose of export-quality wines. Aylward and Glynn (2006) describe the differences in the two types of Australian wine cluster. The South Australian Cluster, which can be described as innovative, and organizational type cluster in Victoria and New South Wales.…”

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New strategic alliances of wine producers in the Czech Republic

Tomšík¹,

Prokeš²

2011

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Abstract:The paper describes the main reasons for the formation of new regional association of wineries, based on a different origin of wines in the wine region of Moravia in the southeast part of the Czech Republic. This research aim is to create a plan for a new development of such strategic alliances on the basis of results of the localization factors. The coefficient of localization is used for the identification of the cluster. The results are compared with the already operating associations for the appellation in Austria (DAC). There were traced changes in the consumer preferences in the Czech wine market. Consumers are placing more emphasis on the selection of wine on its descent from a particular area, the growing community and the individual grower. The dynamic development of the wine category, major changes in the market and the consumer demand are the main causes for the formation of associations of small and medium-sized wineries. This paper specifically introduces new associations for the appellation system VOC. This alliance is described in the context of the establishment, operation, development and expansion, respectively the possibility of the involvement of additional organizations suppliers and research institutions. The application of the results of research was a plan for the establishment of a new alliance VOC Modré Hory, where there are associated 30 wine producers of wine in 5 villages around the centre Velké Pavlovice. Based on the experience of the newly emerging VOC system of appellations, there was set up a plan of formation of the association with the proposed methodological approach. Open cooperation between the associations VOC appellation and other entities involving suppliers, customers, research institutions and universities has the possibility of creating an institutionalized wine cluster. The plan to create a wine cluster was proposed to establish the cooperation between the newly emerging associations of the VOC at three sub-regions of South Moravia, in order to achieve a competitive advantage.

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SME Innovation within the Australian Wine Industry: A Cluster Analysis

Cited by 47 publications

References 5 publications

Open innovation and supply chain management in food machinery supply chain: a case study

Open innovation and supply chain management in food machinery supply chain: a case study

Effect of Clustering and Collaboration on Product Innovativeness: The Case of Manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya

New strategic alliances of wine producers in the Czech Republic

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