Too close to collaborate? How geographic proximity could impede entrepreneurship and innovation
Too close to collaborate? How geographic proximity could impede entrepreneurship and innovation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.02.033
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发表时间：
2013-10-01
影响因子：
11.3
通讯作者：
Rabeau, Yves
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作者：
Ben Letaifa, Soumaya;Rabeau, Yves
许多研究聚焦于成功的集群，以证明地理上的接近有助于协作和创新。然而，实践者仍然需要理解为什么一些集群尽管地理位置接近，但未能合作。这项纵向研究调查了一个未能合作的公私营创新集群，并探索了地理、制度、组织、认知和社会邻近如何相互作用。研究结果表明：(1)社会接近是实现合作最重要的接近；(2)地理接近可能是社会接近的障碍；(3)地理距离被视为创业和创新的加速器。这些发现为关于集群和创新的文献做出了贡献，因为它们认为高度认知、组织、制度和地理位置接近的环境不利于沟通和合作。具体地说，地理上的接近可能会对社交接近产生负面影响。最后，本文阐述了经济政策创造的集群与由私人创业倡议产生的自发生态系统相比不太容易创新。(C)2013 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
Numerous studies focus on successful clusters to demonstrate that geographic proximity enables collaboration and innovation. Yet, practitioners still need to understand why some clusters fail to collaborate despite their geographic proximity. This longitudinal study investigates an KIT public-private innovation cluster that fails to collaborate and explores how geographic, institutional, organizational, cognitive and social proximities interplay. The findings show that: (1) social proximity is the most important proximity to achieving collaboration; (2) close geographic proximity can be a barrier to social proximity; and (3) geographic distance is seen as an accelerator of entrepreneurship and innovation. These findings contribute to the literature on clusters and innovation by arguing that contexts of high cognitive, organizational, institutional and geographic proximities do not facilitate communication and collaboration. Specifically, geographic proximity can have a negative impact on social proximity. Finally the paper illustrates that clusters created by economic policies are less prone to innovation compared to spontaneous ecosystems emerging from private entrepreneurial initiatives. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.