- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 2
- Technological and g...
- Autor(in)
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Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
- Erschienen
- 26. Juni 2008
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2008-054
- Schlagwort(e)
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cognitive proximity
cooperation
geographical proximity
- Zusammenfsg.
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A key issue of different streams of economic literature is to determine the impact of certain dimensions of proximity on the cooperative behavior of actors and, thus, on interactive learning processes. This paper is a quantitative study on the impact of technological and geographical proximity on the choice of the cooperation partner. Patents that were filed for Germany in the years 1998 to 2003 are used to identify the impact of both dimensions of proximity as well as their interplay. It can be shown that an increasing proximity in either of these dimensions has an independent positive impact on the cooperation probability.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- evolutionary economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C30 - General ; L14 - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks ; O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D