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Interregional Collaboration And Innovation In Vancouver'S Emerging High‐Tech Cluster

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Much has been written recently about high‐tech clusters and the benefits of local collaboration, supported by evidence from successful high‐tech regions. Research on historically low‐tech regions distant from high‐tech heartlands is limited, although such lagging regions are often advised to promote clustering and local collaboration in order to become more innovative. This paper examines the recent emergence of a high‐tech cluster in Greater Vancouver, an historically low‐tech city‐region peripheral from the major technological heartlands. Through an investigation of the medical biotechnology and telecommunications hardware industries, this paper explores the role and geography of collaboration by local firms at the research, development and manufacturing stages of the innovation process. Indepth research reveals that interregional collaboration provides firms with vital access to basic research, production expertise and finances that are locally scarce. Most collaborative links are found to be national or international rather than local, although considerable variation is evident between the two industries.

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  • Kevin Rees, 2005. "Interregional Collaboration And Innovation In Vancouver'S Emerging High‐Tech Cluster," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 96(3), pages 298-312, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:96:y:2005:i:3:p:298-312
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2005.00461.x
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    1. Dorothy M. Kirkman & Shalei V. K. Simms & Dt Ogilvie, 2016. "An Examination Of Cluster And Non-Cluster Firms’ Knowledge-Based Activities," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(08), pages 1-17, December.
    2. Gilding, Michael & Brennecke, Julia & Bunton, Vikki & Lusher, Dean & Molloy, Peter L. & Codoreanu, Alex, 2020. "Network failure: Biotechnology firms, clusters and collaborations far from the world superclusters," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(2).
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    4. Zafer Sonmez, 2018. "Interregional inventor collaboration and the commercial value of patented inventions: evidence from the US biotechnology industry," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 61(2), pages 399-438, September.
    5. Jacek Lewkowicz & Anna Lewczuk, 2022. "Innovation through Collaboration," Journal of Economics / Ekonomicky casopis, Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, vol. 70(1), pages 36-56, January.
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