industrial clusters in the developing countries: a case study of the chile fish cluster

Abstract

The issue of existence of an industrial cluster should be correlated with the stage of life cycle of basic industry production. The technological cycle of some industries lasts decades, and the life cycle of industrial cluster can be shorter. While developing consequent stages of the life cycle of the cluster it is necessary to consider the factor of availability of resources or the duration of exploitation, created for functioning of this sector of infrastructure. The development of practically all industrial clusters took a lot of time, the development of the Russian clusters is calculated for 5–10 years. In the world practice there are no cases of creating efficient industrial companies in the developing countries over such periods. There is often a need to use ready objects of infrastructure, but even in this case it may need renovation. Therefore, at the stage of formation, it is desirable to carry out the minimum number of investments that are mainly associated with the creation of the necessary infrastructure and complementary set of institutional conditions that maximize the use of existing infrastructure.