INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERING AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE. IN SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE FROM POLAND
INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERING AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE. IN SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE FROM POLAND

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to examine the effects of clustering industrial activity in some selected regions of Poland. Industrial clusters are recognised to be core entities of economic growth and innovation in the global economy (Njøs and Jakobsen, 2016). As theoretical considerations suggest, industrial clusters understood as a concentration of specific kinds of industry in particular locations generate some positive externalities. The companies belonging to those industries may benefit from the fact that they are spatially concentrated. To determine the existence of such externalities, the data on industrial value added per working person, GDP per capita and GDP growth was used as indicators of the condition of the economy in particular area (NUTS 3 level). Then it was confronted with the results of own research on industrial clusters to determine whether the latter may be a source of competitive advantage of the area. The existing studies dealing with industrial clusters mainly use the case study method or quantitative approach based on one particular cluster. In this paper, a more general approach is used and it tries to identify the influence of clusters on economies on a broader level. The results show that on one hand, no connection between the cluster creating and value added was revealed, on the other hand, the connection with both GDP per capita and GDP growth was shown.

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