The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. By AnnaLee Saxenian

By M. Gertler. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Knowledge spillovers through human mobility across national borders: Evidence from Zhongguancun Science Park in China (2011, background): “More specifically, a new feature of human mobility, returnee entrepreneurs, has recently gained significance as having the potential to be another important driver of knowledge transfer and innovation (Saxenian, 2006).”
Perspectives on Cluster Evolution: Critical Review and Future Research Issues (2015, background): “Policy-makers and other actors contribute, for example, to creating functioning regional innovation systems, in which global knowledge links are also often highly important (Saxenian, 2006).”
Value chains, networks and clusters: reframing the global automotive industry (2008, background): “External pipelines can have an organizational dimension, in the establishment of subsidiaries or through the build-up of trust- or performance-based inter-firm relationships, as well as an interpersonal dimension, embodied by the routine travel and relocation of engineers and managers (Saxenian, 200”
When Do Global Pipelines Enhance the Diffusion of Knowledge in Clusters? (2013, background): “…agents in clusters are embedded in a web of social relations, which determine the set of their possible partners (point 2 of the stylized facts; Becattini, 1990; Saxenian, 1994), whereas the actual use of these linkages depends on the agents’ opportunities to increase their knowledge endowment.”
Internationalization of R&D in China and India: Conventional wisdom versus reality (2008, background): “US universities to return to China with lucrative incentives ( Saxenian, 2006 ).”
Familiarity Breeds Investment: Diaspora Networks and International Investment (2010, background): “Studies of overseas migrant communities have documented the role that coethnic networks play in transmitting technical information and investment capital back to their country of origin (e.g., Saxenian, 2002, 2006).”
Human Mobility and International Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from High-tech Small and Medium Enterprises in an Emerging Market (2010, background): “significantly and the emergence of trans-national scientists and engineers has played an important role in knowledge diffusion across national borders (Saxenian, 2006).”
Global cluster networks—foreign direct investment flows from Canada to China (2014, background): “These transnational community networks enabled Hsinchu in Taiwan and Bangalore in India to upgrade technologically through functional specialisation and cooperation with Silicon Valley (Saxenian, 2006).”
Global Value Chains, National Innovation Systems and Economic Development (2018, background): “Finally, knowledge may be embodied in people, i.e., skilled workers and experts moving across national borders (Saxenian 2006).”
The ‘War for Talent’: The Gatekeeper Role of Executive Search Firms in Elite Labour Markets (2009, background): “London, 2003) and high-technology ( Saxenian, 2006 ).”
Innovation and Spatial Inequality in Europe and USA (2013, positive): “7 example, Saxenian (2006) shows the important role of migrants in creating innovation in Silicon Valley.”