Local Nodes in Global Networks: The Geography of Knowledge Flows in Biotechnology Innovation

By M. Gertler, Yael M Levitte. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Universities and open innovation: the determinants of network centrality (2019, background): “This has led some to question the view that knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus, arguing that firms source knowledge from selected providers located outside the local milieu by investing in the building of new channels of communication (Bathelt and Glückler, 2003; Wolfe and Gertler 2004;”
Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory (2015, background): “This has led some to question the view that tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus, arguing that firms source tacit knowledge from selected providers located outside the local milieu by investing in the building of new channels of communication (Wolfe and Gertler 2004; Fontes 2005; Ge”
Entrepreneurial Geographies: Support Networks in Three High-Technology Industries (2005, background): “Recent research has added San Diego to these two large regions (Powell, Koput, Bowie, and SmithDoerr 2002; Romanelli and Feldman 2004; Gertler and Levitte 2003; Cooke 2003).”
Comparing knowledge bases: on the geography and organization of knowledge sourcing in the regional innovation system of Scania, Sweden (2013, background): “Although there is consensus in the literature that proximity matters for knowledge exchange (Gertler and Levitte, 2005), there is no agreement about under which conditions the local or regional sphere matters most for the exchange of knowledge between firms and other organizations.”
Global networks, local specialisation and regional patterns of innovation (2020, background): “As such, linking knowledge sources across multiple spatial scales challenges the exclusive and dominant role of the local dimension as a selfsufficient institutional and economic construct able to generate innovation as an isolated system (Gertler and Levitte, 2005; Gertler and Wolfe, 2006).”
Epistemic Communities and Cluster Dynamics: On the Role of Knowledge in Industrial Districts (2004, background): “As a range of studies have shown, the geographical distance between partners appears to be of little importance as established companies engage in licensing and other contractual and informal cooperative agreements (Gertler and Levitte, 2003; Gittelman, 2003).”
MNEs as border-crossing multi-location enterprises: The role of discontinuities in geographic space (2013, background): “First, it has been argued that in order to access local resources, subsidiaries need to embed themselves in local business networks (Andersson, Forsgren , & Holm, 2002; Gertler & Levitte, 2005; Heidenreich, 2012).”
The path- and place-dependent nature of scientific knowledge production in biotech 1986-2008 (2014, background): “This is further reinforced by the increasing importance of global research linkages, which tends to favour a small number of big scientific hubs (Gertler and Levitte, 2005; Laudel, 2005; Gittelman, 2007; Moodysson, 2007; Zucker and Darby, 2007; Trippl, 2009).”
Innovation Policy for Grand Challenges. An Economic Geography Perspective (2015, background): “…of Bathelt, Malmberg and Maskell (2004) there has been a wealth of contributions that point to the interplay and complementarity of local and global knowledge ties in innovation networks even in highly specialized and geographically concentrated clusters (Gertler and Levitte 2005, Giuliani 2007).”
Developing Biotechnology Clusters in Non‐high Technology Regions—The Case of Austria (2007, background): “In the recent past, however, this view has been challenged by several contributions accentuating the relevance of non-local knowledge relations (Amin and Cohendet, 2004; Maskell et al., 2004) complementing local ones (Bathelt et al., 2004; Gertler and Levitte, 2005).”
Network Capital, Social Capital and Knowledge Flow: How the Nature of Inter-organizational Networks Impacts on Innovation (2012, background): “While social capital is important in building local interactions and linkages, network capital is also required to build and manage more global knowledge networks (Gertler and Levitte, 2005).”
Knowledge flow and inter-firm networks: The influence of network resources, spatial proximity and firm size (2010, background): “This suggests that while large firms may form part of localized knowledge networks, they are also more likely to act as a node of the global pipelines through which knowledge flows into a region (Bathelt, Malmberg, and Maskell 2004; Gertler and Levitte 2005).”