地理邻近的企业通过面对面的交流促进了产业集群中企业间的知识流动,而知识是企业创新活动中的必要因素。然而地理邻近并不总是能促进企业创新,地理遥远的企业有时也能产生良好的创新绩效,这些现象与企业本身具备的能力有关。因此文章从企业能力视角出发,采用134家高新技术企业作为样本进行问卷调查。结果证实,与同行企业地理邻近的企业需要更多的吸收能力来处理从本地获得的大量知识溢出;而与同行企业地理遥远的企业则需要发展网络能力来发起、建立和利用与其他组织间的关系网络,从而获得新颖的知识来源,促进创新。本研究给位于产业集群中的企业和孤立的企业进行创新活动提供了可操作性建议。
Geographical proximity promotes knowledge flow of firms in industrial cluster by face-to-face communication, and knowledge is a necessary factor in firm innovation activities. However, geographical proximity does not always promote firm innovation and some geographically isolated firms can also produce good innovation performance. These phenomena are related to the capacity of firms. In this study, a questionnaire survey is performed using 134 high-tech firms as samples and analyzed from the perspective of enterprise capacity. The results suggest that the geographically adjacent firms need more absorptive capacity to manage large amount of local knowledge spillover but firms in geographically isolated locates need to develop their network competence with other organizations to obtain new knowledge sources and promote firm innovation. This study provides feasibility suggestions in firm innovation for both geographically isolated firms and geographically adjacent firms in industrial cluster.