Is There a Connection between Geographic Clustering and KIBS Innovation?

Richard Shearmur and David Doloreux

Chapter 10 in Exploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, 2012, pp 193-213 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The question of whether and how firms benefit from geographic clustering has spurred a great deal of academic research (Gilbert et al., 2008; McCann and Folta, 2011). Increasing evidence seems to indicate that the concentration of industrial activity in a geographic region affects firms’ performance because the local competition within the cluster compels firms to innovate in order to remain competitive. Others emphasize that the concentration of firms and organizations in clusters allow them to interact, which eases the flow of knowledge, and leads to more frequent face-to-face interaction, which enables diverse exchanges of explicit and tacit knowledge (Isaksen, 2009; Wolfe, 2009).

Keywords: Process Innovation; Innovation Performance; Manufacturing Sector; Functional Region; Urban Agglomeration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137008428_11

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