The ‘de-territorialisation of closeness’ - a typology of international successful R&D projects involving cultural and geographic proximity

Paulo Santos (), Aurora Teixeira () and Ana Brochado ()
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Paulo Santos: MIETE, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto
Ana Brochado: Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto

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Abstract: Although there is a considerable amount of empirical evidence on inter-firm collaborations within technology-based industries, there are only a few works concerned with R&D cooperation by low-tech firms, especially SMEs. Providing further and new evidence based on a recently built database of CRAFT projects, this study analyzes the relationship between technology and proximity in international R&D networks using Homogeneity Analysis by Means of Alternating Least Squares (HOMALS) and statistical cluster techniques. The resulting typology of international cooperative R&D projects highlights that successful international cooperative R&D projects are both culturally/geographically closer and distant. Moreover, and quite interestingly, geographically distant projects are technologically more advanced whereas those located near each other are essentially low tech. Such evidence is likely to reflect the tacit-codified knowledge debate boosted recently by the ICT “revolution” emphasized by the prophets of the “Death of Distance” and the “End of Geography”.

Keywords: Research and Development (R&D); proximity; SMEs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 R12 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2006-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-tid and nep-ure
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