Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how universities' learning behavior (explorative or exploitative) and network structure (weak or strong inter-organizational ties) can affect their capability to collect and diffuse knowledge, and thus to act as knowledge...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse if and how technology districts use proximity dimensions (such as geographical, organizational, and cognitive) as a communication resource for accessing external knowledge sources. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve this purpose, the...