测量数据收集
业务
人口
认知
知识管理
经济地理学
营销
心理学
区域科学
地理
社会学
计算机科学
数学
统计
人口学
神经科学
作者
Pieter W. Heringa,Edwin Horlings,Mariëlle van der Zouwen,Peter van den Besselaar,W. van Vierssen
标识
DOI:10.1080/10438599.2014.882139
摘要
There is a growing body of literature on the importance of proximity for innovation and other knowledge-related outcomes. We examine the impact of geographical, social, organisational, and cognitive proximity for a heterogeneous population, including people from academia, knowledge institutes, industry, and government. We analyse data on 1020 ego–alter relationships, derived from a survey among water professionals in the Netherlands. The use of survey data allows for more refined indicators of proximity and more diverse collaboration outcomes than those common in the literature. Social and cognitive proximity have a positive effect for all outcomes examined. Geographical and organisational proximity have a negative effect on hard (tangible) outcomes yet a weak positive (if any) effect on soft (intangible) outcomes. We do not find evidence for the suggestions in the conceptual literature that proximity follows an inverted U-curve where most outcomes are achieved in relations with some but not too much proximity.
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