The effects of geographic and network ties on exploitative and exploratory product innovation
研究了产业集群对企业利用性产品创新和探索性产品创新的不同影响，并分析了集群内与供应商和买家的网络联系如何调节这些关系。
Addressing the inconsistent findings in the literature, we first distinguish the type of innovation and study the relationship of industrial clusters with exploitative and exploratory product innovation. Furthermore, we study how focal cluster firms' network ties with their suppliers and buyers in their clusters might moderate these relationships. Our empirical study showed that, while cluster membership enhanced firms' exploitative product innovation, it hindered their exploratory product innovation. Moreover, the results showed that focal cluster firms' network ties with their suppliers and buyers in their clusters strengthened the effects of cluster membership on exploitative product innovation. They also showed that focal cluster firms' network ties with their buyers but not suppliers in their clusters reduced the negative effects of cluster membership on exploratory product innovation . Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.