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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Bridging the industrial divide: Small firm innovativeness and regional institutions in geographical clusters Abstract: This dissertation explores sources of variation in the innovativeness of small firms in geographical clusters. Drawing on social networks theories, the study argues that small firm innovativeness is embedded in an interorganizational community of interfirm linkages, institutional arrangements, and strategic interactions among entrepreneurial actors. The central premise of the dissertation is that each firm's idiosyncratic network, or pattern of linkages with other firms and with regional institutions, exposes it to a unique set of information, ideas, and opportunities to innovate. Beyond these network sources of differences, innovativeness is also predicted to vary according to a firm's ability to recognize, assimilate, and exploit the knowledge discovered through its network. The complementary effects of firms' external learning opportunities and internal absorptive capacities are formalized in a series of hypotheses which explain differences in one form of innovative activity, the assimilation of organizational capabilities. |
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- Herman Anthony van den Berg - University of Toronto (2008)