Technological and geographical patterns in the choice of cooperation partner

Andreas Meder

A key issue of dfferent streams of economic literature is to determine the impact of certain dimensions of proximity on the cooperative behavior of actors and, thus, on interactive learning processes. This paper is a quantitative study on the impact of technological and geographical proximity on the choice of the cooperation partner. Patents that were filed for Germany in the years 1998 to 2003 are used to identify the impact of both dimensions of proximity as well as their interplay. It can be shown that an increasing proximity in either of these dimensions has an independent positive impact on the cooperation probability. -- Cooperation ; cognitive proximity ; geographical proximity

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Year of publication:	2008
Other Persons:	Meder, Andreas (contributor)
Publisher:	Jena : Univ. [u.a.]
Subject:	Unternehmenskooperation \| Inter-firm cooperation \| Forschungskooperation \| Research collaboration \| Geographische Entfernung \| Geographic distance \| Technologiewahl \| Technology choice \| Patent \| Deutschland \| Germany \| 1998-2003

Extent:	Online-Ressource, (23 S.) graph. Darst.
Series:	Jena economics research papers. - Jena : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1864-7057, ZDB-ID 2388825-8. - Vol. 2008,054
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/25741 [Handle]
Classification:	C30 - Econometric Methods: Multiple/Simultaneous Equation Models. General ; L14 - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks ; O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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