Print Email Facebook Twitter Personal and social proximity empowering collaborations Title Personal and social proximity empowering collaborations: The glue of knowledge networks Author Ooms, Ward (Open University of the Netherlands) Werker, C. (TU Delft Economics of Technology and Innovation) Caniëls, Marjolein (Open University of the Netherlands) Date 2018 Abstract The proximity framework serves to analyse and understand how collaborations form and develop over time, and how these affect innovation and learning. The framework has inspired and informed empirical studies in several contexts, contributing to our understanding of the dynamics of dyadic collaborations, industrial clusters and districts, and regional innovation systems, to name but a few. Recent conceptual and empirical advances have called attention to the role of personal proximity and social proximity in such collaborations. In addition to other forms of proximity, these two dimensions could make up the glue that holds knowledge networks together. In the introduction to this special issue, we elaborate upon this proposition, setting out a point-of-departure for the three empirical studies collected in this issue. We summarize the findings of these papers, and develop a research agenda from those findings that may guide proximity researchers to novel research problems and useful research designs. Subject collaborationD71D85innovationL14O31personal proximityProximitysocial proximity To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2564f49b-d251-4661-ac73-d9434faf61bd DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2018.1493983 ISSN 1366-2716 Source Industry and Innovation Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 Ward Ooms, C. Werker, Marjolein Caniëls Files PDF Personal_and_social_proxi ... tworks.pdf 1.18 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2564f49b-d251-4661-ac73-d9434faf61bd/datastream/OBJ/view