Perceived Social Capital and Institutional Environment‘s Impact On the Success of Regional Cluster Policies
Tomasz Kwiatkowski
Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geography and Spatial ManagementCracow, Poland
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, Grzegorz Micek
Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geography and Spatial ManagementCracow, Poland
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and Mariusz Łapczyński
Cracow University of Economics, Department of Market Analysis and Marketing ResearchCracow, Poland
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Jul 26, 2023
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Published Online: Jul 26, 2023
Page range: 198 - 218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ceej-2023-0012
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Cluster policies (CPs) are said to be one of the crucial elements supporting the innovativeness of local and regional economies. However, what drives the success of CPs has not been made fully explicit. We tested the impact of perceived quality and strength of social capital (SC) and the formal institutional environment (FIE) upon CPs. We studied this relationship by applying structural equation modelling to data from quantitative CATI research on members of 20 cluster initiatives from four Polish administrative regions (NUTS 2), referred to as voivodships. We have revealed that the formal institutional environment has a strong influence on CPs, whereas, surprisingly, SC hardly matters.