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The Influence of Geographic Clusters and Knowledge Spillovers on the Product Innovation Activities of New Ventures

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  • Brett Anitra Gilbert
  • Mika Tatum Kusar
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    Geographic clusters have an impressive track record for producing innovative firms. In this research, we examine whether a geographic cluster location and the knowledge spillovers new ventures assimilate influence both their explorative and exploitative innovation activities. We hypothesize a stronger relationship of industry clustering on exploitative innovations but a stronger relationship of knowledge spillovers on explorative innovations. We expect the interaction will result in more exploitative innovations than explorative innovations. The data support most hypotheses.

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    Paper provided by Max Planck Institute of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group in its series Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy with number 2006-16.

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    Length: 29 pages
    Date of creation: May 2006
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    Handle: RePEc:esi:egpdis:2006-16

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