Networking and innovation: a systematic review of the evidence

L Pittaway, M Robertson, K Munir… - International journal …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work on competitiveness has emphasized the importance of business networking for
innovativeness. Until recently, insights into the dynamics of this relationship have been …

Clusters from the inside and out: local dynamics and global linkages

DA Wolfe, MS Gertler - Urban studies, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper surveys some of the current methodologies employed to analyse cluster
development, as well as some of the key themes emerging from both the analytical and …

The impacts of network relationships on SMEs' internationalization process

M Zain, SI Ng - Thunderbird international business review, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In today's globalization era, more and more firms are striving to have an international
presence, even though they face many challenges. Based on a multisite case study method …

[BOOK][B] Changing cities: rethinking urban competitiveness, cohesion and governance

N Buck, IR Gordon, A Harding - 2017 - books.google.com
A new conventional wisdom, spanning academic and policy communities, sees a
combination of economic competitiveness, social cohesion and responsive governance as …

(How) do (firms in) clusters create knowledge?

A Malmberg, D Power - Industry and innovation, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
The literature on clusters and cluster building has been rapidly growing both in academic
and policy‐making circles. Central to this interest and body of work has been the assumption …

Local, global and virtual buzz: The importance of face-to-face contact in economic interaction and possibilities to go beyond

H Bathelt, P Turi - Geoforum, 2011 - Elsevier
Novel information and communication technologies have created new possibilities for
transferring information and knowledge over distance. Although this might open up broad …

Innovation and clustering in the globalised international economy

J Simmie - Clusters in Urban and Regional Development, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The meteoric rise of Michael Porter's cluster concept has taken policy-makers if not
academics by storm in recent years. Government and regional policy-makers in many parts …

Exploring the role of proximity in SME knowledge-acquisition

S Davenport - Research policy, 2005 - Elsevier
Knowledge-acquisition activities of small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are
assumed to benefit from geographic proximity to similar firms and centres of research …

On the duality of competition and collaboration: network-based knowledge relations in the biotechnology industry

AL Oliver - Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on organizational innovation within knowledge-intensive firms,
exemplified by the biotechnology industry, and pinpoints the interorganizational network as …

[BOOK][B] Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor and Firm Strategies

S Christopherson, J Clark - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Winner of the 2009 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award! Since the early 1980s,
the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global economy …