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.

Autorentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
While a strong research base on cluster assets exists, evidence on other factors such as capabilities, i.e. a local culture or networks, 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 model.

Inhalt

Development of a Model for Cluster Innovativeness, Building on a Network-Approach to Dynamic Capabilities; Key Success Factors from Longitudinal Study with almost 100 Interviews across Five Satellite Navigation Application Clusters in Europe; New, Comprehensive, Actionable and Empirically Tested Model of Cluster Innovation Capabilities