CEUR   20898
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS URBANOS Y REGIONALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
From University‐firm linkages to high‐tech business clusters in developing countries. Three case studies in Argentina
Autor/es:
PABLO LAVARELLO; GRACIELA E GUTMAN; VERONICA ROBERT
Lugar:
Nueva York
Reunión:
Congreso; DRUID 2017 Conference; 2017
Institución organizadora:
NYU Stern School of Business
Resumen:
There are recent experiences for fostering technological business clusters in Argentina, universities, along with other local and regional institutions, have played a major role, aiming to develop a critical number of technology-based firms rooted to the territory. These experiences have had different institutional models, showing idiosyncratic trajectories, and different outcomes. This article discusses the opportunities and challenges for technological cluster development from firm-university collaboration networks. Based on a theoretical framework developed by (Boschma, 2005) we analyze different types of proximities between actors in those networks and the proximity between local and national technological policies, regarding the balance between top-down and bottom-up policies encouraging high-tech business clusters formation in Argentina. We compare three cases of incipient S&T clusters based on firm-university networks, located in different regions in Argentina, with an important leading role of public universities. They are: a biotech-firm incubated by a regional university in Santa Fe city; the development of a software business cluster in Tandil a medium-sized city, located at the province of Buenos Aires, and a public-private partnership for innovation in bio-nanotechnology, in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. The three cases had been the outcome of initial local and national S&T policy support, which enabled University-firms relationship. Although, this common feature resulted in different institutional arrangements depending on technology, institutional, social and organizational previous trajectories