Cluster life cycle: the role of the capabilities in the clusters evolutionary process

• Grant number: 15/16951-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2016
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Production Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Dario Henrique Alliprandini
• Grantee: Dario Henrique Alliprandini
• Host Institution: Centro Universitário FEI (UNIFEI). Campus de São Bernardo do Campo. São Bernardo do Campo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Renato de Castro Garcia ; Roberta de Castro Souza

Abstract

The Brazilian ceramic tile industry is the second global producer of ceramic tiles and the country has the second largest domestic market, just behind China. In Brazil, the production is organised in two main industrial clusters: the region of Santa Catarina, in the Southern region of the country, and Santa Gertrudes, in the state of São Paulo. In the last two decades, the Santa Catarina cluster had showed signs of a declining cluster, especially in its quantitative indicators, since production, employment and the number of producers presented strong decreases. However, qualitatively, producers are being able to respond to this declining by improving their products and manufacturing processes. On the other hand, the experience of Santa Gertrudes cluster exhibits a very fast growth since the middle of 1990s and some qualitative indicators indicate that local producer are been able to accumulate new capabilities, especially in manufacturing. Based on these experiences, this chapter aims to investigate the cluster's life cycle especially their evolutionary processes focuses on the path dependence, technological gatekeepers and the capability accumulation process. Based in these experience, managerial and policy implications are presented. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SCUR, GABRIELA; GARCIA, RENATO. The impact of actors, networks and institutions in the cluster's evolution: The case of the Brazilian ceramic tile industry. COMPETITIVENESS REVIEW, v. 29, n. 3, SI, p. 267-286, 2019. (15/16951-0)

SCUR, GABRIELA; GARCIA, RENATO. The impact of actors, networks and institutions in the cluster's evolution: The case of the Brazilian ceramic tile industry. COMPETITIVENESS REVIEW, v. 29, n. 3, p. 20-pg., 2019-01-01. (15/16951-0)