Industrial Sectors and Clusters
The following two links contain comprehensive and detailed information on Industrial Sectors of Pakistan http://www.engineeringpakistan.com/EngPak1/newpd.htm http://www.smeda.org/business-development/sector-briefs.html
The literature on subsequent pages has been extracted from the following article;
The cluster approach and SME competitiveness: a review
By Aleksandar Karaev
South East European Research Centre, Research Centre of the University of Sheffield and CITY Liberal Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece
S.C. Lenny Koh
Management School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, and
Leslie T. Szamosi
South East European Research Centre, Research Centre of the University of Sheffield and CITY Liberal Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece
From;
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management Vol. 18 No. 7, 2007, pp. 818-835 Emerald Group Publishing Limited 1741-038X DOI 10.1108/17410380710817273
Questions (Answer the following questions – answers should be brief and to-the-point) 1 Compare the definitions of Industrial Clusters offered by various authors and agencies. What are the common factors in these definitions? 2 What are the common attributes of successful clusters? 3 What are the advantages and disadvantages of clusters organized on geographic proximity basis? 4 What is the difference between competitiveness and competitive advantage? 5 Why innovation is so important in this highly competitive world, and, how SMEs might use it as a secret weapon to defend through cooperating clusters. Discuss 6 How start-up SMEs can benefit by joining clusters? 7 What is the role of trust building in success of cluster development and maintenance? 8 Why the Cluster model in Fig. 1 yet incomplete?