통독 후 구동독 지역클러스터(regional clusters) 비교 연구 : 지역산업거점, 기업네트워크, 혁신경쟁력을 중심으로

In the beginning of the economic restructuring of East Germany, there were many debates concerning the economic transition strategy to the market economy. From 1999, the Coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and the Green Party propelled active intervention policies for the activation of the regional economy in East Germany, whose central emphasis was focused on regional innovation policy (RIP). The federal and state governments tried to place a platform for research & development (R&D) and to promote networks among the enterprises, colleges, research facilities, and the communities, thereby building the economic development cores. This article surveys methods to identify specific economic regional units as industrial clusters, and researches the accessibility and utility of data regarding cluster identification. The RIP can be chosen, when we can identify economic regions as industrial clusters or rudiments of existing economic development cores. The existence of industrial development cores, corporate networks, and competitive innovativeness are the three components of clusters that are meaningful because they provide the implicit potential for innovative industrial clusters that the Korean industries require nowadays. This article explores the quantifying possibility of identifying regions as clusters with the help of accessible data concerning the three requisites.