The purpose of the paper is to portrait how members of cluster organizations (COs) perceive the role of COs in enabling them to accumulate technological capability (TC) significant for their innovation.,The authors report the findings from their qualitative study based on an analysis of four COs. The organizational inertia and absorptive capacity theories are the theoretical underpinning of the research.,The study shows that the dynamics of TC of the cluster companies included in the study sample relates to their initial level of TC and cluster cooperation. The companies with relatively low initial TC increase it through COs if the clusters offer comparatively high benefits. On the other hand, those COs' members that present relatively high initial TC advance it, provided that the external knowledge and other benefits they can absorb in their clusters are suited to their technological trajectories.,The research is preliminary in nature and portrays how firms with different levels of TC cooperate within COs and how this cooperation translates into TC improvements. The findings add to the state-of-the-art knowledge on the link between TC and absorptive capacity of companies involved in COs by depicting the role of COs in providing knowledge and other cluster benefits that help cluster companies to accumulate TC and improve their absorptive capacity. Nevertheless, the applied methodology does not allow the authors to generalize the findings.,The coordinators of COs should skillfully shape the levels of cluster cooperation, matching them to the desired level of the cluster companies. They should create smaller subgroups composed of companies with similar TC, which may translate into its higher dynamic.,The knowledge about the role of COs in providing cluster benefits that help cluster companies to accumulate TC and improve their absorptive capacity is still insufficient. The study shed new light on the key role of the levels of cluster cooperation and the types of commitment related to them (i.e. technological effort), which may be a matter of importance in the dynamics of TC accumulation.

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通过集群组织的技术能力动态

本文的目的是描述集群组织（CO）成员如何认识到CO在使他们积累对创新具有重要意义的技术能力（TC）中的作用。作者在分析的基础上报告了定性研究的结果。四个CO。组织惯性和吸收能力理论是该研究的理论基础。研究表明，研究样本中所包含的集群公司的TC动态与它们的TC和集群合作的初始水平有关。如果集群提供相对较高的收益，则初始TC相对较低的公司将通过CO来增加它。另一方面，那些具有较高初始TC的CO成员会提前进行，前提是他们可以在集群中吸收的外部知识和其他收益适合其技术轨迹。该研究本质上是初步的，描绘了具有不同TC水平的公司如何在CO中进行合作以及这种合作如何转化为TC改进。这些发现通过描述合作伙伴在提供知识和其他集群收益方面的作用来帮助集群公司积累TC和改善其吸收能力，从而增加了关于TC和参与CO的公司的吸收能力之间联系的最新知识。容量。但是，所采用的方法论并不能使研究结果概括化。CO的协调员应熟练地确定集群合作的水平，使它们与集群公司的期望水平相匹配。他们应该创建由具有相似TC的公司组成的较小的子组，这可能会转化为更高的动态。关于CO在提供集群优势以帮助集群公司积累TC和提高其吸收能力方面的作用的知识仍然不足。该研究为集群合作水平和与之相关的承诺类型（即技术努力）的关键作用提供了新的线索，这可能是在TC积累动态中的重要问题。