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Network positions and efforts to innovate in a small Canadian optics and photonics clusters

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  • Mathieu Ouimet
  • Rejean Landry
  • Nabil Amara

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This paper explores the association between the network positions of firms within a small optics and photonics cluster and their efforts to innovate. Our emphasis in this paper differs from much of the previous work on clusters in that we adopt a systematic social network analysis approach that allows us to construct network indicators measuring the network positions of firms within the Quebec optics and photonics cluster. The following three network measures are used in this paper: degree, betweenness and effective size. These network measures are used to assess whether or not network positions matter with regard to efforts to innovate within a small high-tech cluster. The results showed that participating firms were all highly innovative and highly connected to a large variety of organisations.

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  • Mathieu Ouimet & Rejean Landry & Nabil Amara, 2007. "Network positions and efforts to innovate in a small Canadian optics and photonics clusters," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(2/3/4/5), pages 251-271.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijeima:v:7:y:2007:i:2/3/4/5:p:251-271
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    1. Lyu, Yibo & Zhu, Yuqing & Han, Shaojie & He, Binyuan & Bao, Lining, 2020. "Open innovation and innovation "Radicalness"—the moderating effect of network embeddedness," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
    2. Mahdi Khelfaoui & Luc Bernier, 2023. "Research and technology organizations as entrepreneurship instruments: the case of the Institut National d’Optique in the Canadian optics and photonics industry," Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 12(1), pages 1-21, December.
    3. Vas, Zsófia & Gyurkovics, János, 2021. "Összefüggések a hálózatok jellemzői és a vállalkozások innovációs teljesítménye között. Szakirodalmi áttekintés [What kind of relationship can be identified between network characteristics and the ," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(11), pages 1171-1190.
    4. Tan, Justin & Shao, Yunfei & Li, Wan, 2013. "To be different, or to be the same? An exploratory study of isomorphism in the cluster," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 28(1), pages 83-97.

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