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Resumo do trabalho
Gestão da Inovação · Redes, Ecossistemas e Ambientes de Inovação
Título
MANAGEMENT PROCESSES IN CLUSTERS AS INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS FOR COMPETITIVENESS AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING
Palavras-chave
CLUSTERS
INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS
INTERORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
Agradecimento:
Thanks to FASPESQ/PB, for funding through the FAPESQ-PB_CNPq call in 77_2022
Autores
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GIBSON MEIRA OLIVEIRAUNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DA PARAÍBA (UEPB)
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Anielson Barbosa da SilvaUNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA PARAÍBA (UFPB)
Resumo
Introdução
Clusters foster competitiveness and innovation by enabling knowledge sharing, collaboration, and adaptability in complex environments. Formed by organizations in related sectors within a region, they act as ecosystems that promote strategic integration and value co-creation. These networks involve firms, universities, and government bodies in open, dynamic interactions, encouraging collective learning and enhancing dynamic capabilities which are essential in highly competitive and changing markets.
Problema de Pesquisa e Objetivo
Red de Institutos Tecnológicos de la Comunitat Valenciana (REDIT), is a consolidated Spanish cluster composed of 11 institutes that operate across various economic sectors and collaborate through research development and innovation (R&D&I) projects, that provides a valuable context for exploring the interaction between governance, knowledge sharing, and collaborative management practices in innovation ecosystems, and the objective of this paper is to analyzes the contribution of management processes within a cluster network to strategic competitiveness and managerial integration.
Fundamentação Teórica
Clusters are geographically concentrated networks of autonomous yet interdependent organizations that foster collaboration, innovation, and competitiveness. Seen as ecosystems or meta-organizations, they enhance knowledge sharing, strategic alignment, and co-creation through trust-based interactions and governance mechanisms. These structures promote collective learning, innovation capacity, and access to shared resources, supported by partnerships among firms, academia, and government actors.
Metodologia
This study employed a qualitative and exploratory approach, organized as a single case study of the Red de Institutos Tecnológicos de la Comunitat Valenciana (REDIT), a social organization that coordinates 11 technological institutes across diverse productive sectors. Participants were selected based on accessibility criteria. Data collection was conducted through individual interviews using a semi-structured guide, and data analysis followed Bardin’s (2016) content analysis methodology.
Análise dos Resultados
REDIT is responsible for promoting interaction among the institutes and encouraging the sharing of technologies, practices, and competencies, plays a strategic role as a mechanism of cohesion and coordination among the technological centres that comprise it, acting directly in mediating and developing collaborative projects, aligns with the logic of the Triple Helix model promote integration with industry, government and academia, and create formal and informal mechanisms of interorganizational learning through the enterprises of the cluster.
Conclusão
It can be concluded that clusters operate as strategic environments for organizational integration, capable of fostering innovation, competitiveness, and regional development through structured interorganizational management processes. These processes include governance practices that enhance institutional articulation, knowledge management and collective and interorganizational learning, which operate synergistically to strengthen the strategic capabilities of the participating organizations.
Contribuição / Impacto
Our main contributions are threefold. First, we identify key management processes that support strategic integration and innovation in a cluster setting. Second, we analyze how these processes enhance governance structures and enable knowledge sharing. Third, we offer practical insights for policymakers and managers seeking to design or improve cluster initiatives, particularly in the Brazilian context.
Referências Bibliográficas
Bocquet, R., & Mothe, C. (2010). Knowledge governance within clusters: The case of small firms. Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 8(3), 229–239.
Cassanego Júnior, P. V., et al. (2019). Governance in business clusters: Proposal for an application of an analytical model. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 31(9–10), 984–1010.
Eiriz, V., Gonçalves, M., & Areias, J. S. (2017). Inter-organizational learning within an institutional knowledge network. European Journal of Innovation Management, 20(2), 230–249.
Cassanego Júnior, P. V., et al. (2019). Governance in business clusters: Proposal for an application of an analytical model. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 31(9–10), 984–1010.
Eiriz, V., Gonçalves, M., & Areias, J. S. (2017). Inter-organizational learning within an institutional knowledge network. European Journal of Innovation Management, 20(2), 230–249.