Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or The undefinable tacitness of being (there)

By M. Gertler. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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The role of intermediation and absorptive capacity in facilitating university-industry linkages—An empirical study of TAMA in Japan (2008, background): “Gertler argues that the absorptive capacity must first be established to absorb tacit and codified knowledge in the right balance (Gertler, 2003).”
Buzz, Archipelago Economies and the Future of Intermediate and Peripheral Areas in a Spiky World (2013, background): “…and other economic agents in limited geographical spaces favours the sort of exchanges which facilitate the diffusion of codified information and knowledge, but especially that of tacit knowledge, which is at the root of innovation and competitiveness (Malmberg & Maskell, 2002; Gertler, 2003).”
Cyclical Clusters in Global Circuits: Overlapping Spaces in Furniture Trade Fairs (2008, background): “Much like bustling city streets or carnival seasons, trade fairs can be considered to be “buzzing” (Storper and Venables 2002; Bathelt, Malmberg, and Maskell 2004) with a density of “thick and thin” knowledge “in the air” (Gertler 2003).”
Theorizing practice in economic geography: Foundations, challenges, and possibilities (2011, neutral): “…interests have considered or studied how socio-spatial practices influence a diverse range of phenomena and processes: learning and innovation (Gertler, 2003; Amin and Cohendet, 2004; Faulconbridge, 2006; Hall, 2008; 2009), industrial organization (Bathelt et al. , 2004; Glückler, 2005;…”
Substitution or Overlap? The Relations between Geographical and Non-spatial Proximity Dimensions in Collaborative Innovation Projects (2015, background): “The analytical concept of proximity is currently widely applied by scholars seeking to understand the formation and effect of linkages between actors (see KNOBEN and OERLEMANS (2006) for a review). The central idea is that different forms of proximity reduce coordination costs in interactive knowled”
Regional innovation systems and the foundation of knowledge intensive business services. A comparative study in Bremen, Munich, and Stuttgart, Germany (2006, background): “For a detailed discussion of the dualism between tacit and codified knowledge, see Gertler (2003).”
The path- and place-dependent nature of scientific knowledge production in biotech 1986-2008 (2014, background): “This is often attributed to the tacit dimension of knowledge, which does not travel easily over large distances (Gertler, 2003).”
SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE FLOWS: CLUSTERS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (2005, background): “The recent literature in economic geography and evolutionary economics makes the (by now) well-known distinction between tacit and codified forms of knowledge (see Gertler 2003 for a recent review of this literature and related debates).”
Myopia, knowledge development and cluster evolution (2007, background): “Actors continuously contribute to and benefit from the diffusion of information, gossip and news by just ‘being there’ (Gertler, 2003).”
Building an innovation hub: A case study of the transformation of university roles in regional technological and economic development (2008, background): “integrating the university in new relationships that foster innovation within the region (see also Gertler, 2003 ).”
Staying Power: What Influences Micro-firm Survival in Tourism? (2013, background): “Such practices (or knowledge) are accumulated as skills in individuals and as routines in firms through learning-by-doing, which makes them difficult for other agents to imitate or copy and thus highly actor-specific and often spatially sticky (Nelson & Winter 1982; Gertler 2003).”
Technology Parks versus Science Parks: does the university make the difference? (2013, background): “Location close to a university allows firms to take advantage of knowledge spillovers, which are geographically localized (Feldman and Kogler, 2010) due mainly to the localized nature of tacit knowledge transfer (Gertler, 2003).”
Innovation and networks in rural areas. An analysis from European innovative projects (2014, background): “…responsible for developing those critical interactive processes of promoting, creating and/or managing the formal and tacit knowledge needed for the good performance of local systems and especially by processes involving innovations in the local economy (Rubenson and Schuetze, 2000; Gertler, 2003).”
Mountains in a flat world: Why proximity still matters for the location of economic activity (2008, background): “Technological improvements in communication infrastructures have not affected all kinds of information in the same way, while ‘codified information’ can be transmitted over increasingly large distances, ‘tacit’ knowledge is geographically bounded – or in Morgan’s (2004) words ‘locationally sticky’ –”
Thriving innovation amidst manufacturing decline: the Detroit auto cluster and the resilience of local knowledge production (2015, background): “Physical co-location can resolve the problems associated with the identification and transmission of tacit knowledge (Gertler, 2003).”
Spatiality, Built Form, and Creative Industry Development in the Inner City (2006, background): “She emphasises the importance of nonrepresentational space in the exchange of tacit knowledge (see also Gertler, 2003), which is `sticky'ömore easily transferred or shared in localised, bounded spaces within the city than elsewhereöa point acknowledged in our inventory of industry-shaping facets of…”
University Spillovers: Does the Kind of Science Matter? (2004, background): “While codified or explicit knowledge could be effectively expressed using symbolic forms of representation, this is not the case for tacit knowledge, which defied such representation (Gertler 2003).”