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Innovation modes and knowledge interactions: A micro-geographic approach

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  • Doloreux, David
  • Shearmur, Richard
  • St-Pierre, Laurie-Anne

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Building on the innovation modes and geography of innovation literature, the paper investigates the relationship between modes of organisational learning and innovation, and firms’ participation in knowledge interactions across different geographical scales. We distinguish interactions at a micro-geographic scale, i.e., immediate (0–1 km) and enlarged neighbourhood (1–5 km), from those involving partners elsewhere in the city or further afield (national and global). Drawing on an original firm-level survey in Montreal, we show that whatever the modes of organisational learning adopted, both scientific and practical knowledge are sought, and each is important at some geographic scales (except to firms engaging in internal DUI). Overall, locally sourced knowledge is considered less important than that obtained at wider scales, though in some cases the local neighbourhood is deemed important in combination with wider neighbourhood and city scales. In other cases, it is the city, national and global scales that are simultaneously considered important. The study reveals that there is an overlap between the different scales and knowledge interaction: the metropolitan scale emerges both as the 'inner' limit for firms oriented beyond the region, and as the 'outer' limit for firms oriented towards the neighbourhood.

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  • Doloreux, David & Shearmur, Richard & St-Pierre, Laurie-Anne, 2024. "Innovation modes and knowledge interactions: A micro-geographic approach," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:techno:v:137:y:2024:i:c:s0166497224001469
    DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103096
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