Stakeholder’s point of view: interview with Gábor Marczi, industial expert, manufactory sector, Gant Pécs Glove Ltd.
Gábor Marczi
According to your opinion, a cluster needs to be formally recognized?
In my view the cluster cooperation makes sense. After a few years of practice, it can be seen that first of all those forms are effective, which are not based on a tight professional basis, but involve partners from the wider area of inspiring opportunities.
Which are the main obstacles hindering clustering? What are the main success achieved?
The barriers of the cooperation between professional cluster are themselves the competitor members. In many cases the idea, that one member of the partnership partake in more benefit against others, makes other members passive and they work with limited enthusiasm. The success is that clusters have a basic operating systems, which means that they can manage many more projects together, that the individual members surely wouldn’t assume because it would make even more defences the above-mentioned. For example such as promote of vocational training.
How strong is creative and cultural industry in your region? How would you define it?
Traditional values and technological heritage of some industry are very prominent. The ability – which is necessary for unite economic and marketing forces – is incredibly miserable.
How strong is tourism in your region and what development potentials can you see?
We live here, work here, we want to stay hereafter. We are seeing a lot of small things, which makes pleasant surprise day after day. While shoddy products and modesty dominates our lives, how could we inspire tourists with these little things, for example: Who wants to sewn a teddy bear in the center of Pécs? It would be highly needed to colligate these pleasant distinctiveness – which can’t be found anywhere else,- with effective marketing support which replace businesses ineffective market-influencing activities.
In your opinion, are enterprises from the productive sector (industry) linked with the culture?
This question is always confuse me, because in my point of view glove-producing in Pécs is one of the interpretation of the culture. According to the usual approach the money should be given from producer companies to the cultural productions. Why the need never come up to eminent cultural representatives help for the better appearance of traditional production or more effective presentation?
Are donations to cultural activities from the private sector strongly developed (mecenate)?
I have to say that the sponsorship can be forced, but the volunteer activities of mecenate can’t be found.
What do you expect from the CMC project?
There’s a great potential in it. However, I doubt that we could find characteristic and leader people who can achieve a breakthrough along the above mentioned.