Cooperation and Cluster Strategies Within and Between Technology- Intensive Organizations: How to Enhance Linkages among Firms in TechnoParks

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World today is characterized by rapid transformations in all aspects of human’s life where innovation, technological change and technological progress play the most significant role. Therefore, technologyintensive organizations by engaging in strategic alliances, clusters and networks tend to extract maximum benefits i.e. to enable entry into the international markets and to develop core competences. Even though clusters have become a highly popular strategy, many of them fail to realize their intended goals. Thus, under the scope of this paper we explore why choosing a clustering strategy can be beneficial for technologyintensive organizations. Main focus will be on investigating if there are inter-firm and firm-university linkages among the actors located in a particular techno-park i.e. METU Techno-park and Bilkent Cyber-park. Results of the analysis showed certain extent of firm-university relationships and low level of inter-firm interactions. This further implied necessity of the policy interventions for enhancement of those interactions if the studied techno-parks are to become successful in the sense of the theoretical techno-park model, and if the tenant firms are to extract maximum benefits associated with cluster concept in theory.

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Clusters, Networks, Innovation, Techno-parks, Policy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/92328

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I. Vucic, “Cooperation and Cluster Strategies Within and Between Technology- Intensive Organizations: How to Enhance Linkages among Firms in TechnoParks,” 2010, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/92328.