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The literature on industrial and regional economics is full of cases studies of local productive agglomerations. A significant part of the empirical studies on this subject have concentrated on the analysis of existing productive agglomerations. In contrast, there are few studies that attempt...
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This paper is an attempt to clarify recent trends in the distribution of knowledge intensive services (KIS) in Europe, which have emerged during the last decade as key agents for sustaining local and regional competitiveness. Firstly, particular attention is paid to the definition, the...
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The effect of proximity on development has fostered much interest over recent years and STORPER has put forward the …) and aimed at identifying the effects of proximity on innovation and local development; the method was based on interviews … and data collection. We conclude that institutional proximity combine with physical proximity in the structuring of a …
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This article aims at evaluating the link between knowledge properties and geographical proximity in the coordination R … used to understand the role of geographical proximity. Results confirm that this framework may be able to explain the … spatial dynamics of industrial R&D. Moreover, the diversity of sectoral patterns shows that geographical proximity is not the …
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The present study addresses the relevance of geographic proximity for companies in our age of advanced ICT. Many … our understanding of the crucial factors that influence the relevance of physical proximity. On the basis of these results … fundamental change in proximity needs among these young, innovative companies originates from a small class of network companies …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of various proximity dimensions on the innovative capacity of 276 … inputs. We combine the standard geographical proximity with the technological, social and organizational ones to assess …
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the influence of different forms of proximity on the networkÌs changes needs to be clarified. This paper contributes to …, organizational, institutional, cognitive and social proximity. The relational database is constructed from publicly available … geographical, organizational and institutional proximity favour collaboration. Inversely, organizations prefer to avoid …
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proximity for knowledge generation and innovation is highlighted and instead it is stressed that relational, cognitive …, organizational, social and institutional proximities are not substitutes or complements to spatial proximity but that they are all … functions of the prevailing spatial proximity. Another important factor for interaction is social capital, which by fostering …
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The present study addresses the relevance of geographic proximity for companies in our age of advanced ICT. Many … our understanding of the crucial factors that influence the relevance of physical proximity. On the basis of these results … fundamental change in proximity needs among these young, innovative companies originates from a small class of network companies …
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This paper aims at investigating the role of different types of proximity on the technological activity of a region … coming from proximate regions. In particular, we examine in detail the concept of proximity combining the usual geographical … dimension with the institutional, technological, social and organizational proximity. The analysis is implemented for an ample …
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