A Comparative Study of High Tech Clusters and Corp

* Country?

United Kingdom

China

* Corporate ownership structure?

State Owned

Non state owned

* Firm Classification by size (Number of Employees)

Small (Fewer than 100)

Medium (100 – 1000)

Large (More than 1000)

* Organizational age (in Years)

Less than or equal to 1

2-20

More than 20

To what extent do you agree that your firm can easily and quickly perform the following business actions?

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Disagree somewhat	Undecided	Agree Somewhat	Agree	Strongly Agree
In new product/service introduction, our company is often first to the market

Our new products and services are often perceived as very novel by customers

New products/services in our company often take up against new competitors

Respond to changes in aggregate consumer demand

Customize a product or service to suit an individual customer.

React to new product or service launches by competitors.

Introduce new pricing schedules in response to changes in competitors prices

Expand into new regional or international markets

Change the variety of products/service available for sale.

Adopt new technologies to produce better, faster and cheaper products and services

Switch suppliers to avail of lower costs, better quality, or improve delivery times

Please indicate the importance of internal staff (i.e. Colleagues in your own firm or business unit) as sources of information and/or know–how for the following activities

Please indicate the importance of external stuff (i.e. customers, suppliers, competitors, universities, etc,) as sources of information and/or know-how for the following activities

The extent to which your firm’s performance during the last 2 or 3 years relative to all other competitors

The Clusters: What extent do you agree the following statements

Environmental Factors: What extent do you agree the following statements