The Effects of Technological Distance and Geographic Localization in Customer and Supplier Relationships on the Radicalness of Innovations

摘要：

In this paper, we examine the influence of knowledge distance between firms, in terms of technological and geographic dimensions, on firms breakthrough innovation performance. We distinguish the influences of knowledge distance in customer relationships and supplier relationships. Using Canadian Innovation survey data, we found the knowledge distance plays its role differently in different industrial relationships.

关键词： Technological Innovation Knowledge Dissimilarity Cognitive Distance Customer and Supplier Relationship

作者: Ying LI Bart NOOTEBOOM Wim VANHAVERBEKE

作者单位: Hasselt University Faculty of Applied Economics Diepenbeek, Belgium Tilburg University Tilburg, the Netherlands

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Fifth InternationalSymposium on Management of Technology(ISMOT07)(第五届技术与创新管理国际研讨会)

会议地点: 杭州

会议语种:英文

页码: 342-346

在线出版日期: 2007-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）