Space Interaction and Innovation Does Proximity Really Matter for High Tech Firms

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2015-06-01

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Wasti Pamuksuz, Syeda Nazlı

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There is a widespread assumption in economic geography and innovation economics that firms located in the samegeographic clusters benefit from being together and that proximity promotes knowledge externalities leading toinnovative activity. However, proximity provided by geographic clusters is by no means a guarantee of the developmentof interactions between firms located in them. Especially in an environment where technological developments in ICThas reshaped the meaning of distance, business behavior, and strategy of firms, whether spatial boundaries ofgeographic clusters still matter for firms in forming interactions with others is an important question. The aim of thispaper is to address this issue by examining interactions between high tech firms located in a technology park in Turkey.The results show that the geographical proximity provided by science and technology parks (STPs) is not a source ordriver for the formation of interactions between high tech firms. In fact, it is the match between the goals and needs ofthe firms and the structure of benefits of interaction that determines the significance of locational proximity for firms inSTPs. These results suggest that more focused polices and measures are needed to develop interactions between firmsin STPs or geographic clusters in order to ensure knowledge spillovers and innovatio

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Proximity, Science and Technology Parks, High tech firms

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http://druid8.sit.aau.dk/acc_papers/gtu75rqx892lt3io59ihu6esnk01.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/72862

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DRUID15 Conference (15 - 17 Haziran 2015)

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Department of Business Administration, Conference / Seminar

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S. N. Wasti Pamuksuz, “Space Interaction and Innovation Does Proximity Really Matter for High Tech Firms,” presented at the DRUID15 Conference (15 - 17 Haziran 2015), ROMA, İtalya, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://druid8.sit.aau.dk/acc_papers/gtu75rqx892lt3io59ihu6esnk01.pdf.