Does spatial proximity to customers matter for innovative performance?: Evidence from the Dutch software sector |
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| Authors: | Anet Weterings Ron Boschma |
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| Institution: | a Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, P.O. Box 30 314, 2500 GH The Hague, The Netherlands
b Department of Economic Geography, Faculty of GeoSciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80 115, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | User-producer interactions are often assumed to be an important source of innovation. Spatial proximity between organisations would contribute to such interactive learning processes, because it facilitates face-to-face interactions required to exchange knowledge. However, both assumptions are increasingly debated. Therefore, we have empirically examined this using firm-level data on user-producer interactions of Dutch software firms. Indeed spatial proximity facilitates face-to-face interactions, but it does not strengthen the effect of face-to-face interactions on innovative performance. Moreover, regular interactions and collaboration with customers increase the likelihood that software firms bring new products to the market, but do not improve the firm's innovation output. |
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| Keywords: | D83 L86 O31 R10 |
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