Paper Title
Mapping the Relations Between the Actors in Innovative Industrial Clusters. An Example from Automotive Industry
Abstract
The study aims to underline the relations between the actors of an innovative industrial cluster. To reveal the
relations and their characteristics in an industrial cluster the members of the Association of Automotive Partsand
Components Manufacturers of Turkey (TAYSAD) has been selected as the target group. The methodology for the data
collection is structured in-depth interview with the sample group. 33 members of the TAYSAD has been interviewed at the
top management level. The results of the study show us that the links between the different actors of the cluster (firms,
suppliers, political, users and others) tend to have different strengths. However, there is no dominant relations that come
forward to define the links between the actors of the cluster.
Keywords - Innovation, industrial cluster, relation mapping