近年来产业集群对地区经济发展影响显著,新经济社会学的出现,为产业集群研究开辟了新的视角,它从微观层次刻画了产业集群的网络结构和网络特性,认为一切经济活动都嵌入到社会环境中。从新经济社会学的视角,运用相应的社会网络分析理论与方法尝试进行产业集群定量化研究,并结合多元线性回归对常州中小纺织企业集群的创新能力做了相关的实证检验,旨在为产业集群定量化研究探索实用之路。
Industrial cluster exerts significant influence upon regional economic development recently, and the emergence of new economic sociology provides new perspectives for industrial cluster research, which emphasizes the network structure and network properties at micro level and holds that all economic activities are embedded in social environment. This paper makes an effort to conduct a quantitative research of industrial clusters employing the social network theory in an economic sociology view. A multiple linear regression is made to illustrate to show the relationship between innovative capability and social network with the data from small and medium seized enterprises textile cluster in Changzhou, aiming to exploring a practical method for quantitative research of industrial clusters.