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Today, since industrial clusters affect the organizational competitiveness both national and
international levels and introduces a new perspective towards the location of business
establishment, most countries use industrial cluster development strategy.
Industrial clusters have been also considered in Iran and the industries adapted to and
coordinated with the mentioned approach have tried to locate their business at the better
conditions of competition and market gain within the country, region and throughout the
world. In this article, at first industrial cluster, its advantages and disadvantages have been
defined, and then, the history of industry and industrial cluster of Yazd province and Yazd
ceramic and tile cluster performance examination tools and at the end, the strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats Yazd ceramic and tile cluster have been investigated.
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