Unleashing Innovative Power. Solving cognitive, social and geographic distance issues with informal institutional proximity

Cathrin Sollner and Dirk Fornahl ()

No 2047, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: Literature nowadays claims that innovation is no longer an only ‘one-organization-show’ but that more and more organizations conduct innovative activities in collaboration. To collaborate successfully, cognitive, social, geographic and institutional distances have to be bridged. Especially interesting is the moderating impact of informal institutions, as being at the basis of every human interaction. However, an extensive investigation is still missing. Therefore, the present research makes a first step in closing this research gap, revealing that informal institutional distances are like a diverse puzzle not to be underestimated, as each of the dimensions has different effects on different forms of distances.

Keywords: research collaboration; informal institutional distance; proximity interactions; patent quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09, Revised 2020-09
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