Does regional proximity still matter in a global economy? The case of flemish biotech ventures
When internal knowledge bases are insufficient for developing innovations, companies tend to collaborate with external R&D partners. According to a long-standing literature on ‘clusters’, ‘industrial districts’, ‘local production systems’ and ‘regional innovation systems’, geographical proximity between innovation partners is considered a precondition for inter-organizational collaborations: Proximity is said to facilitate trust, the transfer of tacit knowledge, and the intensity of interactions. This article investigates the importance of geographical proximity for R&D collaborations... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
Schlagwörter: | Inter-organizational collaboration / research and development / globalization / goegraphical proximity / biotech industry |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26705705 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/396530 |