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| IMPACTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL PROXIMITYAND COGNITIVE PROXIMITY ON THE INNOVATION NETWORK OF PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN DONGYING |
| YE Qin, ZENG Gang, CHEN Hong-ting |
| The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China |
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Abstract Dimensions of proximity becomes a new view on innovation network evolution. Chinese scholars' related research focused on the analysis of the role of geographical proximity and lack of empirical investigation. Based on data analysis of patent applications and cooperation patents of Dongying's petroleum equipment enterprises from 1985 to 2013, and interview surveys towards 17 petroleum equipment enterprises of Dongying, this paper discusses the influence of dimensions of proximity on the innovation network evolution in Dongying. According to the dominant proximity, the innovation network can be divided into the initial stage, stable development stage and jumped stage. In the initial stage, the organizational proximity played a leading role, but excessive organizational proximity limited the development of innovation network. In the stable development stage, private enterprises began to join the innovation network, and China University of Petroleum(East China) became a new network node, thus organizational proximity and cognitive proximity jointly promote the development of innovation network. In jumped stage, as the impact of private companies and universities, together with research institutions on innovation network increasing gradually, cognitive proximity played a leading role for promoting the rapid expansion of network. For embedded industrial cluster, the organizational proximity and cognitive proximity play more important role on the development of innovation network than geographic proximity. Relying on the relationship between relatives and friends, teachers and students can promote the development of cognitive proximity.
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Received: 23 November 2015
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2017, Vol. 32 
