Abstract:

For increasing the regional competitive power profiting from the clustering, is not very old in practice, but its theoretical infrastructure depends on the studies of Marshal. Even though clusterings is defined in various forms, it can be said that the common aproach is companies operating in similar fields together in order to gain competitive advantage. The most important featura to distinguish clusterings from other regional development policies is that, in clusterings there are not only the busines concern but also organisators like suplier industries, utilities services providers, education service providers, universities, research institutes, technical support foundations, foundations providing vocational education, development agencies, independent adviser, media, financial actors, and chamber of trade. In Turkey activities in the direction of supporting clusterings via the regionel development are activities in order to support the SMEs. The first planned activity in this direction was establishing industrialzones. In the region of Izmir especially with the support of Izmir Development Agency we start to see clustering activities. 

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