Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy

By M. Storper, Anthony J. Venables. 2004

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Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: the process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’ (2012, methodology): “Attending to this lacuna, we draw upon and develop work in relational economic geography (Maskell et al., 2004; Storper and Venables, 2004; Torre, 2008; Bathelt and Schuldt, 2008a, 2008b) to assemble a framework for understanding the role of conferences in the embodied, programmatic and technical…”
Externalities of openness in innovation (2013, background): “Knowledge diffusion may also be greater where spatially bounded or concentrated networks facilitate ‘buzz’, or intensive face-to-face interaction between network members (Breschi & Lissoni, 2009; Ibrahim, Fallah, & Reilly, 2009; Storper & Venables, 2004).”
Addressing poverty and inequality in the rural economy from a global perspective (2015, background): “…the realisation of spatial spillovers, urbanisation and localisation economies (Frenken et al., 2007), and the attraction of mobile workers and capital (Storper and Venables, 2004), which tends to promote cores of economic activity and exasperate territorial disparities (Rodríguez-Pose, 2010).”
Working with distant researchers—Distance and content in university–industry interaction (2010, neutral): “For the typical case of large scale technology development projects, people can for example work through occasional long-distance travel (Storper & Venables, 2004).”
Station area projects in Europe and beyond: towards transit oriented development? (2012, background): “This is, of course, a complex theme, to which extensive and acclaimed literature has been dedicated (e.g. Harvey, 1991; Castells, 1996; Ascher, 1995; Graham and Marvin, 2001; Storper and Venables, 2004; Urry, 2007).”
Universities and regional economic development: The entrepreneurial University of Waterloo (2008, background): “Local ‘buzz’ results from physical co-location, and is “the force that facilitates the circulation of information in a local economy through interpersonal face-to-face contact, and the mechanism that supports networking in the community” ( Storper and Venables, 2004 ).”
Flows of people, flows of ideas, and the inequality of nations (2011, background): “Aspects of technological knowledge therefore remains tacit in nature and may then only be transferred fully via personal interaction, preferably face-to-face (Keller 2004; Storper and Venables 2004; Jones 2007).”
Econometric modelling of the regional knowledge production function in Europe (2015, background): “On the one hand, face-to-face contacts make it possible for innovative actors to exchange highly valuable noncodified (or not-yet-codifiable) knowledge (Leamer and Storper, 2001; Charlot and Duranton, 2004; Storper and Venables, 2004).”
Cross-border acquisitions and firm value: An analysis of emerging-market multinationals (2009, background): “…of cultural distance, there is ample evidence suggesting that geographic distance raises the cost of transferring knowledge and technology, and dramatically reduces the effectiveness of knowledge-sharing (e.g., Almeida & Kogut, 1999; Branstetter, 2001; Keller, 2002; Storper & Venables, 2004).”
Density and Creativity in U.S. Regions (2008, background): “Lucas (1988) and Storper and Venables (2004) take this one step further by reasoning that it is the faceto-face interactions between individuals with high human capital that facilitate spillovers and the growth of knowledge.”
The geography of COVID‐19 and the structure of local economies: The case of Italy (2020, background): “…the existence of increasing returns internal and external to firms, and that this gives rise to traded or untraded agglomeration benefits potentially involving frequent face‐to‐face interactions (e.g., Iammarino & McCann, 2006; Kaldor, 1970; Krugman, 1991a; McCann, 2013; Storper & Venables, 2004).”
Relational Economic Geography: A Partial Understanding or a New Paradigm? (2008, background): “The core argument is that tacit knowledge and mutual understandings of practice, and hence innovation, are dependent on trustful and localized interpersonal networks (Maskell and Malmberg 1999; Malmberg and Maskell 2002; Leamer and Storper 2001; Storper and Venables 2004).”
The creation of knowledge: local building, global accessing and economic development—toward an agenda (2014, background): “It is shown how cognitive proximity develops from frequent trust-based interactions, based on the co-presence of, and interactions between, agents that are geographically proximate and inhabit the same ‘regional world of production’ (Storper, 1997; Storper and Venables, 2004).”
Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation (2010, background): “It is regular encounters and frequent face-to-face contact, facilitated through an organizationally and institutionally local embeddedness, which is further enhanced by shared socially constructed norms and conventions among the actors involved, that especially excels local learning processes and in”