Geographic cluster size and firm performance

By Timothy B. Folta, A. Cooper, Yoon-suk Baik. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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New Venture Growth: A Review and Extension (2006, background): “Geographic location has been confirmed to influence firm patenting performance, ability to attract alliance partners as well as private equity partners, each of which are factors relating to the growth of new firms (Folta et al., 2006; Lechner & Dowling, 2003).”
Network embeddedness and new-venture internationalization: Analyzing international linkages in the German biotech industry (2008, positive): “A cluster is defined as a geographic concentration of economic and organizational activities (Folta et al., 2006) and in simple terms is a group of similar and complementary firms located close to one another (Stuart and Sorenson, 2003).”
Location Matters: Where We Have Been and Where We Might Go in Agglomeration Research (2008, background): “…of 1 mile (Rosenthal & Strange, 2003) through U.S. zip codes (Chung & Kalnins, 2001), U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (DeCarolis & Deeds, 1999; Folta et al., 2006; Henderson, 2003), U.K. standard regions (Baptista & Swann, 1998; Beaudry & Swann, 2001) and U.S. states (Head et al., 1995;…”
Country-of-origin and industry FDI agglomeration of foreign investors in an emerging economy (2011, background): “With an increasing number of foreign investors moving into the same location, competition for productive inputs, such as workers, land and utility services, intensifies (Folta et al., 2006), driving up the prices for these inputs (Head et al., 1995).”
Local and international networks in small firm internationalization: cases from the Rhône-Alpes medical technology regional cluster (2013, background): “…in a specific region that, through cooperative and competitive relations, leverage the local business support infrastructure to achieve synergies in production and attain their economic and organizational objectives (Cooke and Huggins, 2003; Folta, Cooper, and Baik 2006; Giblin, 2010).”
Connecting local entrepreneurial ecosystems to global innovation networks: open innovation, double networks and knowledge integration (2011, background): “Despite the attractions of megacentres, there appear to be diseconomies or disadvantages to the largest centres, including Silicon Valley and Boston (Deeds et al., 2000; Folta et al. 2006).”
The city as innovation machine (2017, background): “Entrepreneurial failure seems to be similarly clustered, suggesting that the metabolism of these places is faster (Folta et al., 2006; Shaver and Flyer, 2000).”
Clusters, knowledge spillovers and new venture performance: An empirical examination (2008, background): “Deeds et al., 1997), revenue growth (Canina et al., 2005), and survival ( Folta et al., 2006; Sorenson and Audia, 2000; Stuart and Sorenson, 2003).”
Industrial Dynamics and Clusters: A Survey (2015, background): “Thus, exit is not necessarily equivalent to failure (FOLTA et al., 2006; STAM et al., 2008).”
Revisiting the entrepreneur gender–performance relationship: a firm perspective (2014, background): “In this vein, Folta et al. (2006) showed that as the regional context increases in terms of employees, the marginal rate of performance declines, as clusters increases however their sample was limited to firms within the biotechnology industry.”
Partner Geographic and Organizational Proximity and the Innovative Performance of Knowledge‐Creating Alliances (2014, positive): “In fact, firms tend to agglomerate in a handful of more innovative locations wherein spatial proximity facilitates interorganizational learning and the development of new knowledge (Saxenian, 1994; Baptista and Swann, 1998; Bell, 2005; Folta et al., 2006; Capello, 2009).”
The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms (2010, positive): “ Folta et al. (2006) investigated 789 US biotech firms started between 1973 and 1998.”