Since 1990s, industrial cluster has become an important topic in the theoretical circle and production practice. China's industrial clusters appeared first in Guangdong and Zhejiang at the beginning of reform and opening time.Under the drive of the township enterprises, foreign investment and other non-public economy, there formed a large number of various types of industrial clusters in these areas, and quickly became the important force of the region's economic development.
As a typical case of China's industrial clusters ,the 1980's “Qiaotou button market”experienced from gloom to doom.The article will do an empirical study about the development of cluster of“Qiaotou button market”,and analysis the process. By studying the market’s formation, development, decline, we will explore the formation of industrial clusters path and the mechanism of cluster evolution, thus to verify the theory of industrial clusters.The author hope to give the industry some guidelines in some degree, and provide some useful lessons in the development of industrial clusters in China .
This structure of this article is divided into five chapters.In addition to the first introductory chapter and the fifth concluding chapter, the main section contains three chapters, namely the cluster literature review of chapter two, chapter three --cluster formation, the mechanism of development and decline analysis, chapter four--case study.
Through the research, it can be founded that the formation of the Qiaotou button market has sevseal factors.Among them,economies of scale, externalities, entrepreneurship, the role of government and rooted cultural play significant roles. After the formation ,the characteristics and the forms of different stages are not the same. In addition, the main factors to facilitate to the next phase of stage are different. These results demonstrate the path of the formation of industrial clusters and industrial clusters evolution mechanism;support many scholars’ theory elaborated on this theory and prove the Qiaotou button market evolution and the evolution of industrial clusters mechanism coincident basically.
KEYWORDS：industrial cluster，evolution，Qiaotou button market.
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