Cooperative entrepreneurship and cluster formation
- Credits: 3
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: summer
- Year: 2
- Faculty of Business Management
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Teaching results
Knowledge:
Acquire basic knowledge of the various forms of business clustering in terms of legal and organisational aspects, knowledge of cluster management (strategic, financial, personnel) and marketing, knowledge of cluster initiatives and their specificities
Competence:
• To master the basic concepts related to cluster initiatives, cluster policies and clusters.
• To be familiar with the legislation related to clusters in the Slovak Republic, the EU and the world.
• Gain knowledge on all areas of effective cluster management and performance measurement.
• Gain generally applicable information for acting as a cluster facilitator.
Skills:
• Ability to set up a cluster and work as a cluster facilitator in all phases of cluster activity.
• Ability to manage a cluster and develop individual plans ( strategic, financial, marketing, personnel, etc.).
• Ability to prepare and manage cluster initiatives.
Indicative content
1. Definition of basic terms (network entrepreneurship, strategic alliances, virtual and hollow enterprise, historical development of cluster issues)
2. Definition of clusters and their basic characteristics (concepts of regional clusters and regional innovation networks, typology of clusters and dimensions of clusters, advantages and disadvantages of clustering)
3. Cluster initiatives (content and objectives of cluster initiatives, policy areas as prerequisites for cluster initiatives, life cycle of cluster initiatives, financing of cluster initiatives)
4. Cluster emergence and life cycle (methods of cluster identification, stages of cluster development, systemic and direct impact on cluster life cycle stages
5. Benefits of clusters and their activities (benefits of clusters for individual cluster members, cluster objectives and activities leading to their fulfilment, activity plan and its implementation, key factors influencing the success of clusters
6. information, communication and financial policy of clusters (cluster information system, cluster financing
7. Cluster personnel policy and management (cluster participants and cluster structure, cluster organisation and cluster management, cluster facilitator
8. Performance measurement of clusters and cluster initiatives (Porter's diamond, Performance model of cluster initiatives, Performance evaluation of individual entities within a cluster, Performance evaluation of the cluster as a whole)
9. Cluster organisation (legal forms of cluster organisation and formation, clusters and competition protection)
10. The impact of clusters on the competitiveness of enterprises, regions and national economies (regional concentration, territorial clustering and methodological dependence, the concept of agglomeration and its two dimensions, cluster dynamics and the impact of the three dynamic forces)
11. Cluster policies (instruments, focus, benefits and risks of cluster policies, types of policies acting on clusters)
12. Cluster policies and clusters in the EU and the rest of the world (institutional support for clusters and cluster initiatives in the EU and the world, transnational cooperation between clusters
13. Cluster policies and clusters in Slovakia (background, objectives, challenges and problems of clusters in Slovakia, Union of Slovak Clusters)
Support literature
1. GAJDOVÁ, D. Vybrané problémy klastrov a klastrových iniciatív. 1. vyd. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2014. 123 s. ISBN 978-80-225-4039-1.
2. GAJDOVÁ, D. Facilitator as a Human Capital of Cluster and Important Determinant of Compatitieveness of SMEs. In Stabilization of Human Capital in Slovak Enterprises As an Immanent Determinant of Their Success, Competitiveness and Sustainable Development : Research Papers. - Brno : Masaryk University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-80-210-9499-4, s. 80-86.
3. PAVELKOVÁ, D. Klastry a jejich vliv na výkonnost firem. Praha : Grada Publishing 2009. 272 s. ISBN 9788024726892.
4. https://een.ec.europa.eu/
5. https://siea.sk/
6. GAJDOVÁ, D. - KRECHOVSKÁ, M. - DUBCOVÁ, G. New challenges of SMEs through clusters creation in Slovakia. - Registrovaný: Web of Science. In International conference on new challenges in management and organization: organization and leadership. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences :
7. DEÁKOVÁ, S. - GAJDOVÁ, D. - KRIŽAN, M. Diagnostika podnikateľského prostredia so zameraním sa na nové vývojové trendy ako nástroje konkurenčnej výhody [elektronický zdroj]. Recenzenti: Helena Majdúchová, Lilia Dvořáková. 1. vyd. Praha : Wolters Kluwer, 2016. CD-ROM [220 s., 10,51 AH]. KEGA 030EU-4/2015. ISBN 978-80-7552-472-0. http://www.sbagency.sk/
8. Biela kniha klastrových politík (The competitive institute, 2004)
9. Zelená kniha klastrových iniciatív (2006)
10. Sprievodca klastrom (Czechinvest, 2006)
Syllabus
1. Definition of basic terms (network entrepreneurship, strategic alliances, virtual and hollow enterprise, historical development of cluster issues) 2. Definition of clusters and their basic characteristics (concepts of regional clusters and regional innovation networks, typology of clusters and dimensions of clusters, advantages and disadvantages of clustering) 3. Cluster initiatives (content and objectives of cluster initiatives, policy areas as prerequisites for cluster initiatives, life cycle of cluster initiatives, financing of cluster initiatives) 4. Cluster emergence and life cycle (methods of cluster identification, stages of cluster development, systemic and direct impact on cluster life cycle stages 5. Benefits of clusters and their activities (benefits of clusters for individual cluster members, cluster objectives and activities leading to their fulfilment, activity plan and its implementation, key factors influencing the success of clusters 6. information, communication and financial policy of clusters (cluster information system, cluster financing 7. Cluster personnel policy and management (cluster participants and cluster structure, cluster organisation and cluster management, cluster facilitator 8. Performance measurement of clusters and cluster initiatives (Porter's diamond, Performance model of cluster initiatives, Performance evaluation of individual entities within a cluster, Performance evaluation of the cluster as a whole) 9. Cluster organisation (legal forms of cluster organisation and formation, clusters and competition protection) 10. The impact of clusters on the competitiveness of enterprises, regions and national economies (regional concentration, territorial clustering and methodological dependence, the concept of agglomeration and its two dimensions, cluster dynamics and the impact of the three dynamic forces) 11. Cluster policies (instruments, focus, benefits and risks of cluster policies, types of policies acting on clusters) 12. Cluster policies and clusters in the EU and the rest of the world (institutional support for clusters and cluster initiatives in the EU and the world, transnational cooperation between clusters 13. Cluster policies and clusters in Slovakia (background, objectives, challenges and problems of clusters in Slovakia, Union of Slovak Clusters)
Requirements to complete the course
40 % continuous written work, 60 % presentation of the final thesis (examination)
Student workload
78 h (attendance at seminars 26 h, preparation for seminars 13 h, preparation for intermediate written work 13 h, preparation for presentation 26 h)
Language whose command is required to complete the course
Slovak
Date of approval: 09.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 18.05.2022