Networks, Propinquity, and Innovation in Knowledge-intensive Industries

By K. Whittington, Jason Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell. 2009

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

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The Core and Cosmopolitans: A Relational View of Innovation in User Communities (2012, background): “Individuals have finite capacities to maintain relationships, and they thus face trade-offs to span multiple external communities as well as maintain their position in the core of the local community (Whittington et al. 2009).”
The Role of External Linkages and Gatekeepers for the Renewal and Expansion of US Cities' Knowledge Base, 1990–2004 (2015, background): “Moreover, gatekeepers may have trouble in managing and matching multiple external and internal connections due to increasing coordination costs, thus reducing the amount and efficiency of information flows (WHITTINGTON et al., 2009).”
Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks (2011, background): “Finally, because an organization’s centrality in a network of geographically dispersed organizations and its centrality in a network of colocated organizations provide similar benefits for knowledge creation, the two are partial substitutes (Whittington et al., 2009).”
International Exposure Through Network Relationships: Implications for New Venture Internationalization (2013, background): “…proximate firms might be a useful group to turn to for knowledge acquisition, such value is not always fundamental and depends on contextual (e.g., Davenport, 2005, Lemarié et al., 2001 and McKelvey et al., 2003) and firm (e.g., McCann and Folta, 2009 and Whittington et al., 2009) factors.”
Leveraging complexity for ecosystemic innovation (2018, background): “ducing innovations, since geographical proximity of networked agents (particularly of firms and universities) is crucial for facilitating knowledge transfer, especially in knowledge-intensive industries (Owen-Smith and Powell, 2009; Powell and Giannella, 2010; Sölvell, 2009).”
Personal relationships and innovation diffusion in SME networks: A content analysis approach (2012, background): “In such systems, innovation cannot be seen as a linear process but it must be analyzed as a social, non-linear and interactive process (Lundvall, 1992), in which territorial and socio-cultural variables play significant roles in shaping innovative outputs over time (Asheim, 2000; Whittington et al.,”
Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation (2014, background): “VCs are able to exert more influence on proximate firms than on distant firms because oversight of proximate firms is less costly (Lerner, 1995) and because more informal opportunities arise for advising and influencing strategy when relationships are co-located (Whittington et al., 2009).”
Industry Induces Academic Science to Know Less about More1 (2010, background): “…as universities, hospitals, firms, and funders become linked in a common network via mobility, collaboration, and formal joint ventures, the network itself has emerged as the primary locus of innovation (Powell 1996; Powell, Koput, and SmithDoerr 1996; Whittington, Owen-Smith, and Powell 2009).”