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Industry Clusters and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Competing Agendas or Synchronised Policy? Allan O’Connor, University of Adelaide, Australia Rowena Vnuk, University of Adelaide, Australia Parallel Session 1.2 Analysis of Cluster Models and Cluster Ecosystems

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Industry Clusters and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Competing Agendas or

Synchronised Policy?Allan O’Connor, University of Adelaide, AustraliaRowena Vnuk, University of Adelaide, Australia

Parallel Session 1.2 Analysis of Cluster Models and Cluster Ecosystems

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The Starting point

Clusters and entrepreneurial ecosystems

Australian Cluster Observatory: www.clusterobservatory.com.au

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Cluster Definition• “Clusters are geographical concentrations of

interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, firms in related industries, and associated institutions … in particular fields that compete but also cooperate”– Porter, M.E. (1998) “Clusters and the New Economics

of Competition”. Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec 1998.

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Clusters: But why…• Clusters are important. They can increase innovation,

productivity and competitiveness, and boost regional and national economic growth;

• Clusters emerge spontaneously. Clusters can emerge only if and where there is a competitive advantage to begin with;

• Cluster development feeds on start-ups and firms moving into the cluster. Therefore access to capital and a positive attitude to risk is essential;

• Clusters grow because firms share and create knowledge and specialised labour; and because of the presence of a network of support services and a complex fabric of social relationships.

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Source: Advanced Institute of Management Research (2005?) ‘The Cluster Effect’

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The Adapted Diamond Model (Porter 1990)

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Firm strategy, structure and rivalry

Related and supporting industries

Factor & resourceConditions

Demand ConditionsCluster processes

∑ increased innovation, productivity and competitiveness

greater regional and national economic growth

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE) Definition• ‘a set of interconnected entrepreneurial actors

(both potential and existing), entrepreneurial organisations (e.g. firms, venture capitalists, business angels, banks), institutions (universities, public sector agencies, financial bodies) and entrepreneurial processes (e.g. the business birth rate, numbers of high growth firms, levels of ‘blockbuster entrepreneurship’, number of serial entrepreneurs, degree of sell-out mentality within firms and levels of entrepreneurial ambition) which formally and informally coalesce to connect, mediate and govern the performance within the local entrepreneurial environment’ (Mason & Brown 2014)

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EE: But why?• To improve socioeconomic performances

– Greater employment– Better wealth distribution– Reduce cost of living– Higher living standards

• To improve market efficiencies– Product/service distribution– Reduce transaction costs (supply and demand side)

• To increase industry effectiveness– Benefits of co-location– Greater innovation and technology advances

• To facilitate private investment in growth economies– More start-ups– Greater business capital investment

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The EE model

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Industry Structures

Factor Conditions (Institutional, Cultural,

Social, Financial)

Resource Conditions Demand ConditionsEntrepreneurial processes

∑ increased innovation, productivity and competitiveness

greater regional and national economic growth

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Common Dimensions of Assessment• Market and Demand Conditions (External)

– E.g. Technology, Social & cultural, Economics, Environmental• Factor and Supply Conditions (Internal)

– E.g. Technology, Human Capital, Finance, Environment, Infrastructure

• Power and Control Dynamics– Dominant players, bottlenecks

• Value Appropriation Dynamics– Number of participants, Commodity, Niche or Specialisation

• Business level behaviours– Collaborative, Competitive, Networks, Knowledge Spill-over

and Transfer• Temporal and Policy Dynamics

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Cluster and EE differences• Clusters

– Emerge from established firm competitive advantage

– Firms are embedded in industry dynamic

– Firms seek to exploit common markets and resources

– Policies are built around agglomerated firms

– Networks built around firm level cultures, languages and histories converging from the past

• EEs– Create positions of firm

level competitive advantage

– New firms seek to embed in industry dynamics

– Firms seek to occupy market gaps and gather unique resources

– Policies are centred upon atomistic start-up firms

– Networks built around the individual and start-up cultures, languages and future opportunities diverging from the past

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IntegrationHuman Action

(Leadership, social capital,networks and linkages)

Factors & Resources(Physical resources, financial

capital, labour and humancapital, knowledge, R&D)

Historical Structures(Culture, institutions, identity

and image, competitive and

collaborative behaviours)

Specialisation(Cluster Initiatives)

Diversity(Entrepreneurial Ecosystem)

Strategic Innovation of Place

Feedback

Industry & Markets(Structure, power, Customer

accessibility, diversity,wealth and competition)

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Thank you!

Allan O'Connor & Rowena Vnuk

Australian Cluster Observatory: www.clusterobservatory.com.au

Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation CentreUniversity of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005Ph    : +61 8 8313 0188

e-mail: [email protected]: http://www.ecic.adelaide.edu.au/