Prioritizing factors affecting regional competitiveness in industrial clusters

Abstract

This study aimed to rank the factors affecting regional competitiveness in industrial clusters of equipment for oil, gas, and petrochemicals in Iran. The research was descriptive-analytical in terms of methodology. In addition, data were collected using questionnaires, whose reliability and validity was confirmed. Moreover, data analysis was performed in SPSS and LISREL. According to the results, the factors affecting regional competitiveness increase were classified into four categories of spatial-geographical relations, institutional-organizational relations, economic relations, and social relations. Therefore, improving the industrial cluster's performance will directly help the oil industry achieve its localization and self-efficiency goals, especially in terms of the supply of equipment. On the other hand, this issue had a significant effect on the development of various economic, social, educational, and employment aspects in oil, gas, and petrochemical regionals.