Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity

By Bart Nooteboom, Wpm Wim Vanhaverbeke, Geert Duysters, Victor A. Gilsing, A. V. D. Oord. 2005

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Knowledge networks in the Dutch aviation industry: The proximity paradox (2012, background): “It is also for this reason that one expects that excessive cognitive proximity may be harmful to performance (see Nooteboom et al., 2007; Boschma et al., 2009; Boschma and Frenken 2009).”
Knowledge Maturity and the Scientific Value of Innovations (2017, result): “First, in accordance with prior research (e.g., Ahuja, 2000; Hess & Rothaermel, 2011; Nooteboom et al., 2007; Rosenkopf & Nerkar, 2001), we considered alternative measures of 522 Journal of Management / February 2017 Capaldo et al. / Knowledge Maturity and the Value of Innovations 523 innovation…”
Public-private partnerships as systemic agricultural innovation policy instruments – Assessing their contribution to innovation system function dynamics (2019, background): “These findings are in line with the literature on innovation networks that states that multidisciplinary teams are more innovative (Beers and Geerling-Eiff, 2013; Schot and Geels, 2008) but at the same time can suffer from the large ‘cognitive distance’ between members (Nooteboom et al., 2007) makin”
Human Mobility and International Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from High-tech Small and Medium Enterprises in an Emerging Market (2010, background): “A relatively large technology gap implies greater potential for knowledge spillovers but the effects of as returnees and former MNE employees in enabling non-returnee firms to stretch their existing knowledge base to bridge the technology gap (Nooteboom et al., 2007) may differ.”
Open Innovation in Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises (SMEs): External Knowledge Sourcing Strategies and Internal Organizational Facilitators (2015, positive): “upon trust and are characterized by mutual understanding among partners (Nooteboom et al. 2007).”
Absorptive Capacity and Firm Performance in SMEs: The Mediating Influence of Strategic Alliances (2011, background): “, 2001; Tsai, 2001; Lichtenthaler, 2009), as well as the positive influence of ACAP on the success of strategic alliances (Chen, 2004b; Noteboom et al., 2005; Lavie and Rosenkopf, 2006).”
The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography (2010, neutral): “(Grabher and Stark, 1997; Boschma, 2005; Cantner and Meder, 2007; Nooteboom et al., 2007; Broekel and Meder, 2008).”
Brokerage in SME networks (2010, background): “Due o their differentiated technological know-how and large cognitive istance (Nooteboom et al., 2007) it becomes more difficult to comunicate with companies outside their own industry (Nooteboom, 000).”
Localized learning revisited (2006, background): “If optimal cognitive distance for knowledge creation is curvilinear (inverted U), attempts to source knowledge in far away and dissimilar settings run the risk of running into insurmountable barriers for interactive learning (Capello 1999, Nooteboom et al. 2005, Wuyts et al. 2005).”
How firms collaborate with public research organizations : The evolution of proximity dimensions in successful innovation projects (2016, background): “Although firms are better able to collaborate if their partners are similar, partners that are too similar may not be able to provide resources and knowledge that are sufficiently heterogeneous to facilitate the development of innovations (Nooteboom et al., 2007).”