Empirical Tests of Optimal Cognitive Distance

By S. Wuyts, Massimo G. Colombo, Shantanu Dutta, Bart Nooteboom. 2004

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Service Innovation: A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective (2015, background): “Prior studies on inter-firm alliances have investigated the impact of technological distance among alliance partners on different aspects of performance, including innovation (e.g., Gilsing et al. 2008; Wuyts et al. 2005).”
Matching and network effects (2010, neutral): “Recent work on cognitive distance (Wuyts et al., 2005) suggests that research overlap affects the probability to collaborate in two ways.”
Network Embeddedness and the Exploration of Novel Technologies: Technological Distance, Betweenness Centrality and Density (2008, neutral): “A second, more pragmatic argument is that it is not clear how, precisely, other dimensions of cognitive distance should be measured (cf. Wuyts et al. 2005).”
Technological proximity and the choice of cooperation partner (2007, background): “Taking these two arguments together, we find that, while a sufficient degree of technological overlap ensures communication, diversity and different knowledge bases increase the opportunities for establishing new linkages and for the emergenceofinnovations(CohenandLevinthal1990,p.133).Thus,thereexis”
In search of complementary assets: The determinants of alliance formation of high-tech start-ups (2006, background): “, 1998, 2000; Piga and Vivarelli, 2004), their “absorptive capacity” (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990), and the cognitive distance between them (Nooteboom, 1992, 1999), which creates both opportunity for and obstacles to the generation of synergistic gains (Mowery et al., 1998; Cantwell and Colombo, 2000;”
Proximity and Inter-Organizational Collaboration: A Literature Review (2006, neutral): “Cognitive proximity is commonly deﬁned as the similarities in the way actors perceive, interpret, understand and evaluate the world (Wuyts et al. 2005).”
Social capital, institutions and trust (2007, neutral): “Here, the challenge is to find optimal cognitive distance, small enough to allow for understanding and collaboration, and large enough to generate novelty (Wuyts et al. 2005, Nooteboom et al. 2005).”
A Cognitive Theory of the Firm (2005, background): “In empirical work, measures of the cognitive distance between firms have been constructed on the basis of indicators from organizational data and technological profiles derived from patent data (Wuyts et al. 2005; Nooteboom et al. 2005).”
Geographical and cognitive proximity effects on innovation performance in SMEs: a way through knowledge acquisition (2011, background): “Authors have devoted increasing attention particularly to the cognitive dimension of proximity (Wuyts et al. 2005).”