Analyzing industrial clusters using measures of structural complexity management

Danilo Marcello Schmidt, Marc Haas, Daniel Kammer, Julian Wilberg, Maximilian Philipp Kissel, Udo Lindemann

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Abstract

Companies organize in industrial clusters to exchange knowledge, to identify new options for cooperation and to improve the regional competences for a special industry sector. For optimizing industrial clusters, it is necessary to assess factors influencing performance or effectivity of industrial clusters. This evaluation or analysis of cluster's performance can reveal strengths and weaknesses of the cluster. Interpreting the weaknesses might detect activities for improving the performance of the industrial cluster. For this performance analysis, we use measures and metrics of structural complexity management to investigate the cluster's inner structure, e.g. the cooperation and linkage between employees of companies, which are in the same cluster. We applied the measures at the MAI Carbon cluster and interpreted the results of the performance analysis. The user data of the cluster's online platform serve as the basis for this analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationModeling and Managing Complex Systems - Proceedings of the 17th International DSM Conference
EditorsTyson R. Browning, Steven D. Eppinger, Danilo Marcello Schmidt, Udo Lindemann
PublisherCarl Hanser Verlag
Pages41-51
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9783446445734
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event17th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2015 - Fort Worth, United States
Duration: 4 Nov 20156 Nov 2015

Publication series

NameModeling and Managing Complex Systems - Proceedings of the 17th International DSM Conference

Conference

Conference17th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityFort Worth
Period4/11/156/11/15

Keywords

  • Cluster structure
  • DMM
  • DSM
  • Industrial cluster
  • Structural complexity

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