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Is There a Connection between Geographic Clustering and KIBS Innovation?

In: Exploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services

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  • Richard Shearmur
  • David Doloreux

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The question of whether and how firms benefit from geographic clustering has spurred a great deal of academic research (Gilbert et al., 2008; McCann and Folta, 2011). Increasing evidence seems to indicate that the concentration of industrial activity in a geographic region affects firms’ performance because the local competition within the cluster compels firms to innovate in order to remain competitive. Others emphasize that the concentration of firms and organizations in clusters allow them to interact, which eases the flow of knowledge, and leads to more frequent face-to-face interaction, which enables diverse exchanges of explicit and tacit knowledge (Isaksen, 2009; Wolfe, 2009).

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  • Richard Shearmur & David Doloreux, 2012. "Is There a Connection between Geographic Clustering and KIBS Innovation?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Eleonora Maria & Roberto Grandinetti & Barbara Bernardo (ed.), Exploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, chapter 10, pages 193-213, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-00842-8_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137008428_11
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    1. Veronika Bumberová & František Milichovský, 2019. "Sustainability Development of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Strategic Actions and Business Performance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-19, September.
    2. Zoltán Bujdosó & János Pénzes & Lóránt Dávid & Szilárd Madaras, 2016. "The Spatial Pattern of KIBS and their Relations with the Territorial Development in Romania," The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 18(41), pages 1-73, February.
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