Röttmer Innovation Performance and Clusters

A Dynamic Capability Perspective on Regional Technology Clusters
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-8349-6809-8
Verlag: Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Gabler
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Business and Management (R0)

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Röttmer, Nicole

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword;6
2;Acknowledgements;7
3;Table of Contents;8
4;List of Figures;12
5;List of Tables;15
6;List of Abbreviations;16
7;1 Introduction;17
7.1;1.1 Motivation and Problem Statement;17
7.2;1.2 Research Objective and Research Question;23
7.3;1.3 Research Epistemology and Methodology;25
7.4;1.4 Expected Results and Contribution;32
7.5;1.5 Structure of the Study;33
8;2 Grounding in the Literature: Innovativeness of Regions and Firms;35
8.1;2.1 Defining Innovativeness and Technology Clusters;35
8.1.1;2.1.1 Defining Innovativeness;35
8.1.2;2.1.2 Defining Technology Clusters;35
8.2;2.2 Regional Innovativeness: Structural and Socio-Cultural Elements as Driving Forces;40
8.2.1;2.2.1 The Cluster Concept and its Driving Forces of Innovativeness;40
8.2.2;2.2.2 The Concept of Regional Innovation Systems and its Driving Forces of Innovativeness;42
8.2.3;2.2.3 The Concept of Innovative Milieux and their Driving Forces of Innovativeness;43
8.2.4;2.2.4 The Concept of Regional Networks and their Driving Forces of Innovativeness;46
8.3;2.3 The Concept of Dynamic Capabilities: A Comprehensive View on Structural and Socio-Economic Drivers of Firm Innovativeness;47
8.3.1;2.3.1 A Dynamic Capability Model of Firm Innovativeness: The Role of the Context, Assets, Routines, Dynamic Capabilities and Inn;47
8.3.2;2.3.2 Characterizing Dynamic Capabilities;52
8.3.3;2.3.3 Defining and Operationalizing Dynamic Capabilities;53
9;3 Clusters and Innovation Capabilities: Deriving and Operationalizing a Priori Constructs;58
9.1;3.1 Deriving Constructs Required for Understanding Cluster Innovation Capabilities;58
9.2;3.2 Capturing Existing Constructs: Context, Innovativeness and Performance;58
9.2.1;3.2.1 Specifying and Operationalizing Cluster Context;58
9.2.2;3.2.2 Specifying and Operationalizing Cluster Innovativeness and Performance;59
9.3;3.3 Deriving a Priori Constructs from the Literature: Assets and Cluster Innovation Capabilities;64
9.3.1;3.3.1 Feasibility of Deriving the Constructs Assets and Cluster Innovation Capabilities from the Literature;64
9.3.2;3.3.2 Deriving Literature-based Evidence on Assets;66
9.3.3;3.3.3 Deriving Literature-based Evidence on Cluster Innovation Capabilities;68
9.4;3.4 Operationalizing the a Priori Constructs: Assets and Innovation Capabilities;71
9.4.1;3.4.1 Operationalizing Cluster Assets;71
9.4.2;3.4.2 Operationalizing Cluster Innovation Capabilities;73
9.4.2.1;3.4.2.1 Operationalization through Perceived Existence;73
9.4.2.2;3.4.2.2 Operationalization through the Observation of Cluster Routines;75
10;4 Designing a Research Effort into the Innovativeness of Regional Satellite Navigation Application Clusters;81
10.1;4.1 Selection of Sample;81
10.1.1;4.1.1 Selection of Technological Field: GALILEO as a Satellite Navigation Technology Shock;81
10.1.2;4.1.2 Market Potential introduced by GALILEO;87
10.1.3;4.1.3 Selection of Clusters;91
10.1.4;4.1.4 Selection of Respondents;94
10.2;4.2 Data Collection and Analysis;96
10.2.1;4.2.1 Data Collection Method;96
10.2.2;4.2.2 Data Analysis;99
11;5 Case Study Results;101
11.1;5.1 Description of the Sample;101
11.2;5.2 Single Case Analysis;105
11.2.1;5.2.1 Cluster ALPHA;105
11.2.1.1;5.2.1.1 Cluster Context;105
11.2.1.2;5.2.1.2 Cluster Assets;105
11.2.1.3;5.2.1.3 Perceived Cluster Innovation Capabilities and Observation of Routines;106
11.2.1.4;5.2.1.4 Perceived Cluster Innovativeness and Performance;112
11.2.1.5;5.2.1.5 Perceived Cluster Strengths and Weaknesses;115
11.2.1.6;5.2.1.6 Implications for a Dynamic Capability View on Clusters and Discussion of Findings;116
11.2.2;5.2.2 Cluster BETA;117
11.2.2.1;5.2.2.1 Cluster Context;117
11.2.2.2;5.2.2.2 Cluster Assets;117
11.2.2.3;5.2.2.3 Perceived Cluster Innovation Capabilities and Observation of Routines;118
11.2.2.4;5.2.2.4 Perceived Cluster Innovativeness and Performance;124
11.2.2.5;5.2.2.5 Perceived Cluster Strengths and Weaknesses;126
11.2.2.6;5.2.2.6 Implications for a Dynamic Capability View on Clusters and Discussion of Findings;127
11.2.3;5.2.3 Cluster GAMMA;128
11.2.3.1;5.2.3.1 Cluster Context;128
11.2.3.2;5.2.3.2 Cluster Assets;129
11.2.3.3;5.2.3.3 Perceived Cluster Innovation Capabilities and Observation of Routines;130
11.2.3.4;5.2.3.4 Perceived Cluster Innovativeness and Performance;136
11.2.3.5;5.2.3.5 Perceived Cluster Strengths and Weaknesses;138
11.2.3.6;5.2.3.6 Implications for a Dynamic Capability View on Clusters and Discussion of Findings;139
11.2.4;5.2.4 Cluster DELTA;140
11.2.4.1;5.2.4.1 Cluster Contex;140
11.2.4.2;5.2.4.2 Cluster Assets;140
11.2.4.3;5.2.4.3 Perceived Cluster Innovation Capabilities and Observation of Routines;141
11.2.4.4;5.2.4.4 Perceived Cluster Innovativeness and Performance;147
11.2.4.5;5.2.4.5 Perceived Cluster Strengths and Weaknesses;149
11.2.4.6;5.2.4.6 Implications for a Dynamic Capability View on Clusters and Discussion of Findings;149
11.2.5;5.2.5 Cluster EPSILON;151
11.2.5.1;5.2.5.1 Cluster Context;151
11.2.5.2;5.2.5.2 Cluster Assets;151
11.2.5.3;5.2.5.3 Perceived Cluster Innovation Capabilities and Observation of Routines;152
11.2.5.4;5.2.5.4 Perceived Cluster Innovativeness and Performance;158
11.2.5.5;5.2.5.5 Perceived Cluster Strengths and Weaknesses;160
11.2.5.6;5.2.5.6 Implications for a Dynamic Capability View on Clusters and Discussion of Findings;160
11.3;5.3 Cross-Case Analysis;162
11.3.1;5.3.1 Case-based Evidence on A Priori Constructs: Cluster Assets;162
11.3.2;5.3.2 Case-based Evidence on A Priori Constructs: Cluster Innovation Capabilities;163
11.3.2.1;5.3.2.1 Community Building;163
11.3.2.2;5.3.2.2 Strategic Alignment;167
11.3.2.3;5.3.2.3 Reconfiguration;169
11.3.2.4;5.2.3.4 Opportunity Recognition;172
11.3.2.5;5.2.3.4 Networking;175
11.3.3;5.3.3 Cross-Cluster Innovativeness and Performance;177
11.3.4;5.3.4 Pattern Identification: Case-based Evidence on the Static and Dynamic Relationship among the Constructs;178
11.3.4.1;5.3.4.1 Impact of Cluster Context on Cluster Assets, Routines, Capabilities and Performance;178
11.3.4.2;5.3.4.2 Impact of Cluster Assets on Cluster Routines, Capabilities and Performance;180
11.3.4.3;5.3.4.3 Impact of Cluster Innovation Capabilities on Performance;181
11.4;5.4 Developing the Cluster Innovation Capabilities View;182
11.4.1;5.4.1 Deriving Hypotheses on Cluster Innovation Capabilities;182
11.4.2;5.4.2 Answering the Research Questions on Cluster Innovation Capabilities;184
11.4.3;5.4.3 Developing a Model of Cluster Innovation Capabilities;185
12;6 Research Results Embedding into the Literature, Summary and Outlook;187
12.1;6.1 Contrasting the Results with the Literature on Dynamic Capabilities;187
12.2;6.2 Contrasting the Results with the Literature on Regional Innovativeness;190
12.2.1;6.2.1 Clusters;190
12.2.2;6.2.2 Regional Innovation Systems;191
12.2.3;6.2.3 Innovative Milieux;192
12.2.4;6.2.4 Regional Networks;193
12.3;6.3 Overview of the Research Results;194
12.4;6.4 Contributions and Implications of Research;196
12.5;6.5 Limitations of the Study and Directions for Future Research;198
13;Annex: Interview Guideline;200
14;References;201

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Nicole Röttmer wrote her dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bernhard R. Katzy at the Center for Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Leiden.