Epistemic Communities and Cluster Dynamics: On the Role of Knowledge in Industrial Districts
By Lars Håkanson. 2004
183 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This paper questions the prevailing notions that firms within industrial clusters have privileged access to “tacit knowledge” that is unavailable—or available only at high cost—to firms located elsewhere, and that such access provides competitive advantages that cause the growth and development of both firms and regions. It outlines a model of cluster dynamics emphasizing two mutually interdependent processes: the concentration of specialized and complementary epistemic communities, on the one hand, and entrepreneurship and a high rate of new firm formation on the other.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Industry Factors in the Internationalization Patterns of Firms (2005, unknown): “On the one hand, a dynamic local environment might attract new firms interested in learning through a strong local network (Håkanson 2005).”
- The Regional Environment and a Firm’s Innovative Performance: A Plea for a Multilevel Interactionist Approach (2007, background): “As Håkanson (2005) argued, given the significance attached to it, remarkable little attention and effort have been devoted to improving our understanding of the nature of the “tacit knowledge” that is believed to be floating around in clusters.”
- Theorizing path dependence: a review of positive feedback mechanisms in technology markets, regional clusters, and organizations (2012, unknown): “Hakanson (2005) Concentration of specialized and complementary epistemic communities.”
- The Increasing Importance of Geographical Proximity in Knowledge Production: An Analysis of US Patent Citations, 1975–1997 (2008, background): “These technological and organizational investments in long-distance communication help them create dispersed `epistemic communities' (Amin and Cohendet, 1999; Hakanson, 2005; Lissoni, 2003).”