Is cognitive proximity a driver of geographical distance of university-industry collaboration?

摘要

本文探讨了巴西大学-产业合作中地理邻近性与认知邻近性的关系，使用大学-产业合作数据，并基于对应分析建立了认知邻近性的测量标准。主要的研究结果显示，认知邻近可替代地理邻近，原因是大学及其合作公司之间共有的能力与专业知识技能可促进远距离合作。本文的研究结果为研究发展中国家的地理邻近性和一种非空间的邻近性之间的关系提供了新的正据，也为影响远距离大学-产业合作的驱动因素增添了新的内容-认知邻近性。%This paper examines the relationship between geographical and cognitive proximity in university-industry collaboration in Brazil. Data from university-industry collaborations were used and a measure for cognitive proximity was built based on correspondence analysis. The main results show that cognitive proximity is a substitute for geographical proximity because shared capabilities and expertise between a university and the collaborating firm stimulate long-distance collaboration. The results provide new empirical evidence for the relationship between geographical proximity and a form of non-spatial proximity in a developing country. Moreover, these findings add a new driver, cognitive proximity, that affects long-distance university-industry collaboration.