Traditionally, economic geographers stress geographical proximity’s positive impact on collaboration processes …. Recently, effects of cognitive, organisational, social and institutional proximity dimensions have been emphasised. This paper … mechanism, where non-spatial forms of proximity substitute for geographical proximity, and the overlap mechanism, where …

The proximity concept refers to types of inter-organizational relationships that are expected to facilitate interactive … learning and collaborative innovation. Different forms of proximity include geographical, cognitive, social, institutional and … organizational proximity. Following an extensive case study of a new diet margarine developed by Unilever, we extent the proximity …