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| Related concepts | Enterprise cluster | Industrial cluster | Industrial park | Block economy | Industrial clusters |
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| Authoritative source | Qiu Baoxing “small business cluster research” | Weber’s “industrial location theory” | Marshall’s “principles of economics” | Fei Xiaotong “small city, big problem” | Michael Porter “national competitive advantage” |
| Proposal time | 1949 | 1992 | Late nineteenth century and early twentieth century | 1980s | 1990 |
| Constitute the subject | Independent and interconnected enterprises | Industrial agglomeration in space | The government takes the lead in attracting enterprises, universities, etc. to enter the park | Small and medium enterprises, micro enterprises, etc. | Enterprises, universities, scientific research institutions, government organizations, etc. |
| Links with industrial clusters | Possess a certain number and scale of enterprises and a narrow geographic space | With trade characteristics and interfirm resource dependence | A cluster of enterprises formed by the government and a certain industry in a region | Concentration of new industrial clusters such as China’s local economic phenomenon and rural small industries | Spontaneous formation, government guidance, spatial agglomeration, clear division of labor and cooperation |
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