How Local Knowledge Networks and Firm Internal Characteristics Evolve Across Time Inside Science Parks

Isabel Díez-Vial () and Ángeles Montoro-Sánchez ()
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Isabel Díez-Vial: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Ángeles Montoro-Sánchez: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

A chapter in Agglomeration and Firm Performance, 2018, pp 139-153 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we analyze how firms’ characteristics, along with the network that each firm establishes, evolve through three different periods of time: incubation, growth, and maturity. We observe that as firms stay longer in the park, they have a higher number of direct relationships, and also these relationships tend to be stronger in terms of both frequency and friendship. Nevertheless, this higher level of interactions do not benefit firms in the same way, being the best period for improving innovation, the growth initial period, in which firms have between 3 and 6 years.

Keywords: Network evolution; Knowledge exchange; Trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90575-4_9

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