Castellón ceramic sector challenges: inkjet technology

Abstract

There has always been a wide range of literature having to do with the worldwide competitiveness of companies and their degree of development and innovation. The studies were geared towards companies that were situated in the same countries or regions and already had a certain degree of interrelation. These companies had access to a series of advantages that the companies that had developed on their own and more independently, did not have. It was at that time that a clear line of study, focused on the economic development of the companies involved in the clusters, began. It is very important the clear understanding of the term, in order to understand each and every cluster individually. These geographical groupings of companies generate functional bonds with each other and a symbiosis between organizations, which has had a positive effect on the clusters and each of the companies involved. My project is divided into three parts. In the first part, I present the theoretical framework of the business agglomeration, trying to explain the difference between the cluster and the industrial district. In the second part, I present the specific case of the ceramic cluster from Castellon. After presenting the origin of the cluster and its components, in the third part, I present the products life stages and its different stages. I will also expose the typology of innovations, all focused on Inkjet and its repercussion on Castellon s cluster as well as worldwide.