Economic clusters, entrepreneurship and innovation
- Authors: McRae-Williams, Pamela , Lowe, Julian , Taylor, Peter
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 2005 Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference, Melbourne : 10th February, 2005
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001177
Economic clusters, new venture creation and growth
- Authors: McRae-Williams, Pamela , Lowe, Julian , Taylor, Peter
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Vol. 2, no. (2005), p. 135-148
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- Description: C1
- Description: 2003001145
The determinants of cluster activities in the Australian wine and tourism industries
- Authors: Taylor, Peter , McRae-Williams, Pamela , Lowe, Julian
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Tourism Economics Vol. 13, no. 4 (2007), p. 639-656
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- Description: This paper discusses wine and tourism clusters and the recent innovation of wine tourism in which businesses operate within both industries. The concept of micro-clusters is examined in terms of trust, networking, collaboration and other activities, all of which are argued to depend on the concepts of game theory and sunk costs. The study involved both interviews and a questionnaire. Conceptual variables are created from the questionnaire responses using factor analysis. The determinants of cluster activities are modelled using regression analysis. The effects of industry, place and respondents' entrepreneurial characteristics are used as exogenous variables. The study finds that industry does seem to be more important than place in the determination of networking and cooperative cluster activities, and that members of the wine tourism industry participate more in these activities than members of the tourism or hospitality industries. The addition of three variables that embody the entrepreneurial characteristics of the respondents approximately doubles the explanatory power of the original models. There is evidence to suggest that cluster activities are idiosyncratic for each industry-place cluster. The effects of firm size on cluster activities are also examined. No evidence is found of cooperative activities depending on cluster size. The main results support the contention that sunk costs are important in the determination of cluster activities.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003005195
The influence of industrial clusters and place on innovation and entrepreneurial behaviour
- Authors: McRae-Williams, Pamela , Lowe, Julian , Taylor, Peter
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Vol. 8, no. 3 (2007), p. 165-174
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- Description: Responses from a questionnaire survey of wine and tourism businesses operating in regional clusters were analysed using factor analysis. These suggested three factor scores relating to entrepreneurial behaviour; four factor scores relating to cluster activities and attributes; and three factors relating to the respondents' personal characteristics. The three entrepreneurial behaviour factor scores were interpreted as: innovator, calculator and venturer. These were used as dependent variables in regression models. The independent variables were the cluster and personal characteristics factor scores, industry and place. The central result was that the cluster activity variables did not have a significant impact on the innovator behaviour variable, which contradicts the standard view. Cluster activities and attributes were found to attract entrepreneurs of the calculator kind, and to a lesser extent, of the venturer kind. Place did seem to offer an attraction to entrepreneurs beyond those offered by the intensities of the cluster activities and attributes. Responses from a questionnaire survey of wine and tourism businesses operating in regional clusters were analysed using factor analysis. These suggested three factor scores relating to entrepreneurial behaviour; four factor scores relating to cluster activities and attributes; and three factors relating to the respondents' personal characteristics. The three entrepreneurial behaviour factor scores were interpreted as: innovator, calculator and venturer. These were used as dependent variables in regression models. The independent variables were the cluster and personal characteristics factor scores, industry and place. The central result was that the cluster activity variables did not have a significant impact on the innovator behaviour variable, which contradicts the standard view. Cluster activities and attributes were found to attract entrepreneurs of the calculator kind, and to a lesser extent, of the venturer kind. Place did seem to offer an attraction to entrepreneurs beyond those offered by the intensities of the cluster activities and attributes.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003005196
Imitation through technology licensing : strategic implications for smaller firms
- Authors: Lowe, Julian , Taylor, Peter
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Exploiting intellectual property to promote innovation and create value Chapter 6 p. 117-140
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- Description: There are two traditional views of the role of intellectual property (IP) within the field of innovation management: in innovation management research, as an indicator or proxy for innovation inputs or outputs, e.g. patents or licensing income; or in innovation management practice, as a means of protecting knowledge. Exploiting Intellectual Property to Promote Innovation and Create Value argues that whilst both of these perspectives are useful, neither capture the full potential contribution of intellectual property in innovation management research and practice.The management of IP has become a central challenge in current strategies of Open Innovation and Business Model Innovation, but there is relatively little empirical work available. Theoretical arguments and empirical research suggest that from both an innovation policy and management perspective, the challenge is to use IP to encourage risk-taking and innovation, and that a broader repertoire of strategies is necessary to create and capture the economic and social benefits of innovation. This book identifies how intellectual property can be harnessed to create and capture value through exploiting new opportunities for innovation. It is organized around three related themes: public policies for IP; firm strategies for IP; and creating value from IP, and offers insights from the latest research on IP strategies and practices to create and capture the economic and social benefits of innovation.
The Port Phillip Lime Economy : The vessels, the industry and their decline
- Authors: Taylor, Peter
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The objective of this Master of Arts thesis is to address the previous knowledge gap that existed with regards to the unwritten history of the Port Phillip lime economy. The particular focus of this thesis concerns the participating craft that helped to drive that economy, the types of craft and a number of shipwrecks concerning lime craft.
- Description: Masters by Research
The Port Phillip lime economy
- Authors: Taylor, Peter
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Before/Now : Journal of the collaborative Research Centre in Australian History (CRCAH) Vol. 1, no. 1 (2019), p. 59-69
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- Description: Lime is an essential component of the building industry for it is used to make mortar and to make plaster. Without lime, building construction in Melbourne would have been severely curtailed. Yet, this is an industry rarely written about. Using newspapers as a key source, this article discusses the development of the lime industry from the time of first settlement in the Port Phillip district to the rise of Marvellous Melbourne in the 1880s, key figures in the industry, and their predilection to form cartels.
Adapting port cluster theory to contextualise the remarkable rise of the gold rushes port of Melbourne: 1851–1861
- Authors: Taylor, Peter
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: The research question that forms the basis of this thesis asks how and what drove the port of Melbourne to advance 30–50 years growth in less than ten during the 1850s gold era. To answer this question this thesis modifies and tests a new methodological approach to read the port’s growth driven by a close reading and evaluation of port cluster theory. Developed in the early 2000s the theory synthesises elements that constitute a port and operations through a wide range of components and activities. Recognising that a twenty-first-century port is not the same as a mid-nineteenth-century port, through advances brought on by a wide range of modern technologies, the theory has been historicised to dismantle the 1851–1861 gold era port of Melbourne to recognise its parts and how it was built. One of the tools to be enhanced and expanded for this is the cluster table of components and activities, providing specifics for activities undertaken at a mid-nineteenth-century port. A key constituent this propels the research forward when applied at Melbourne’s four ports of central Melbourne, Sandridge (Port Melbourne), Williamstown, Footscray and the Saltwater (Maribyrnong) River (combined). The argument is made that the ports evolved to be a port cluster reinforced by the exploration of specific themes of defence, security, river punts, entrepreneurs, ballast trade, quarrying, railways, noxious industries, shipwreck salvage, shipbuilding, ship repairs, tourism and wharf construction as topics. This thesis then uses the evidence gained to claim that the port did indeed evolve into a cluster port by 1861. The wider implication of this research is that a new framework exists for understanding the complexities of a mid-nineteenth-century port and how this can be done in a systematic way. For this methodology to demonstrate utility outside the port of Melbourne, requires further testing at sites within Australia, and worldwide, for confirmation of universality.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy