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Proximity and Innovation in Clusters: How Close, How Far?

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The concept of proximity, whilst attractive cognitively, is still a poorly explored area in management sciences. The earliest publications on proximity were published at the end of the twentieth century and the development of this concept was strongly influenced by The French School of Proximity (Kirat & Lung, 1999; Rallet & Torre, 1999; Torre & Gilly, 2000; Carrincazeaux et al., 2001; Torre & Rallet, 2005). However, the most influential publications are by Boschma, who distinguished five basic dimensions of proximity: geographical, social, cognitive, organizational and institutional (Boschma 2004, 2005; Boschma & Frenken, 2010; Boschma et al., 2014; Balland et al., 2015). Proximity is particularly important for the development of cooperation between business entities embedded in a specific territory – the idea of proximity is related to all concepts of regional development based on knowledge and innovation (Martin, 2003). This also applies to the cluster concept (Porter, 1998; 2000; 2001; 2003) in which references to all dimensions of proximity can be found. Applying the proximity category to the cluster concept can be treated as an attempt to understand and explain factors of a non-economic nature that may affect (positively or negatively) the development of innovation in clusters.

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artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:
Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation no. 16, pages 7 - 10,
ISSN: 2299-7326
Language:
English
Publication year:
2020
Bibliographic description:
Lis A.: Proximity and Innovation in Clusters: How Close, How Far?// Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation -Vol. 16,iss. 3 (2020), s.7-10
DOI:
Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.7341/20201630
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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