Supercluster .. the global meaning when comparing with Thailand's meaning. At the beginning with Silicon Valley as the first-ever supercluster for high-tech industry and relevant association in the 20th century, its learning curve has philosophically provided everyone that we are moving from the world in which the big eat the small to one in which the fast eat the slow. However, while learning from Japan's supercluster, it have been discovered that Japanese people are very keen in what they are and what they would do to enhance their competitive advantage of the nation in the 21st century, particularly with a new concept of the better, the faster. Many environmental friendly projects, such as e-car initiative, have been established and super-clustered their capable networks together for the best efficiency. The aim is to think and do green by launching only better eco-products/eco-services to the global market while promoting slow movement and slow value in the territory. Are those Thailand's competitiveness ? If not, can we follow what we are instead ? Tailor-Made Supercluster would be the best solution. A challenge of establishing a tailor-made supercluster that is acceptable to all stakeholders in the involving areas is to balance the demands of all stakeholders with eco-conscious and socio-conscious responsibilities. By understanding "Four Knowledges of Sustainable Management" would assist these stakeholders to achieve that kind of balance in practice, precisely through the mutual knowledges of community identity, community heritage, community problem, and community future.

1. SUPERCLUSTER
THE
GLOBAL
MEANING
Somnuck
Jongmeewasin
Chonburi
CSO
5
November
2015

2. Leading hub and startup eco-system for high-tech
innovation & development, accounting for 1/3 of all
of the venture capital investment in the country.
Silicon Valley, encompasses all of the Santa Clara
Valley, the southern half of the Peninsula and
southern portions of the East Bay. It was in Silicon
Valley that the silicon-based integrated circuit, the
microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among
other key technologies, were developed. The region
employed about 250,000 IT workers
(U.S.’s Supercluster Definition)︎

3. Silicon
Valley,
as
seen
from
over
north
San
Jose,
facing
southbound
towards
(Note
2)
Silicon
Valley,
site
boundary
in
the
map,
the
first-­‐ever
supercluster
in
the
20th
century
(Note
1)

4. San
Jose,
acting
as
Silicon
Valley’s
capital
(Note
4)
The
existing
Silicon
Valley
(Note
3)

5. The wide-range collaboration in order to create
innovation with high-impact in the country, while
exploiting the achievements of science and
technology promotion measures in each area thus
far, the government will initiate selection and
concentration, finding the best match, based on
social and market needs.
(Japan’s Supercluster Definition)︎

6. WIDERANGE
COLLABORATION
Kyoto-­‐Aichi
Supercluster
in
Japan
(Note
5)

7. Supercluster
in
Power
Electronics,
background
&
aim
of
developing
SiC
power
device
technology
(Note
6)

8. Industries using high technology such as
automobiles and parts; electrical appliances; telecom
equipment, and petrochemicals and environmentally
friendly chemical products. Clusters are formed in
areas where there is already a concentration of a
certain industry. They will be linked with education
institutions or research centres, raw materials
sources, labour pools and SMEs in the same areas.
(Thailand’s Supercluster Definition)︎

9. The
Mazda2
eco-­‐car
production
at
Auto
Alliance(Thailand)
Co.,Ltd’s
plant
in
Rayong
(Note
7)

10. ARE THOSE THAILAND’S COMPETITIVENESS ?
Michael
Porter’s
Diamond
Model
(Note
8)

11. If not, can we follow what we are ?
THE TAILOR-MADE
SUPERCLUSTER
Through
Mutual Knowledges of
Community Identity, Community Heritage,
Community Problem, and Community Future.

12. (Note
9)

13. (Note
10)

14. (Note
11)

15. Reference
Note
1,
2,
&
4:
‘Silicon
Valley’,
2015,
Wikipedia,
wiki
article,
viewed
4
November
2015,
https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley
Note
3:
The
Mark
Consulting
2015,
A
Brief
History
of
Silicon
Valley,
the
Region
That
Revolutionizes
How
We
Do
Everything,
viewed
4
November
2015,
http://
themarkconsulting.com/a-­‐brief-­‐history-­‐of-­‐silicon-­‐valley-­‐the-­‐region-­‐that-­‐revolutionizes-­‐how-­‐
we-­‐do-­‐everything
Note
5
&
6:
Japan
Science
and
Technology
Agency
2013,
Super
Cluster
Program:
System
Summary,
viewed
4
November
2015,
http://www.jst.go.jp/super-­‐c/en/index.html
Note
7:
Online
Reporters
2015,
‘Privileges
for
Clusters
Approved’,
Bangkok
Post,
22
September,
viewed
4
November
2015,
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/
702868/privileges-­‐for-­‐clusters-­‐approved
Note8:
Porter,
ME
1990,
Competitive
Advantage
of
Nations,
The
Free
Press,
NY,
p.127
Note
9
&
11:
Decharut
Sukkamnerd
(Ph.D.),
Facultyof
Economics,
Kasesart
University
Note
10:
Chamroon
Suaydee,
Prachinburi
CSO