M.A. Thesis:

Investigating the possibility of developing honey industrial cluster in Khorasan province

Today, in most countries of the world, small and medium-sized industries play a role in solving the economic, social, industrial production and service aspects. In developing countries, small and medium-sized industries are also a strategic factor in the economic development, employment and competitiveness of industries. However, in our country, despite the fact that more than 5% of production units fall into the small and medium industries, due to lack of development strategy based on existing industrial structures and abandonment of small production units, these firms have failed. Make a significant contribution to GDP and create added value and suffer from severe deficiencies, some of which are listed below: - Absence of the necessary scales from different aspects of capital, production and market - Lack of proper business growth environments from various legal, legal and ... - Lack of software and organizational infrastructure - Production of old technologies and lack of access to new technologies - Lack of coherent communication with the country's banking and financial networks - Absence of inter-agency collaboration networks - Lack of knowledge of target markets Industrial clusters are one of the successful models of organizing small and medium-sized industries that address the shortcomings of the small and medium-sized industries and enhance the different advantages of the small-scale industries, as they enhance flexibility and diversity. An industrial cluster is an environment that relies on consolidated social capital in different geographical areas, alongside support institutions and through dense inter-firm relationships, since the strengths of industrial development using the cluster model are some of the same weaknesses. Industry in a resource-dependent economy such as Iran's oil-based economy, it is best to take action to help our country's industry first by identifying spontaneously formed regional clusters that have inherent capabilities and natural pull towards development and improvement. Began to develop and improve these environments. With the aim of creating examples that serve to model and gain similar experience for other parts of the country that create clusters at embryonic stage or environments suitable for cluster development with the least developmental challenge,

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