Buzz and pipelines: the costs and benefits of local and nonlocal interaction
通过模拟模型研究产业集群中企业间本地与非本地互动的成本与收益，发现过度本地互动可能导致技术锁定，而非本地互动可能带来机会成本。
Explanations for why firms in some clusters outperform others rest on the assumed benefits of local and nonlocal interaction. In this article, we extend research on knowledge sharing by modeling local and global interactions between firms distributed across industrial clusters. Our simulation model develops an evolutionary framework where firms explore and exploit knowledge sets accumulated over time by recombining technologies held by local and nonlocal partners. In investigating the opportunity cost structure of local and nonlocal interaction, our simulation raises two important questions that call for additional theoretical and empirical analysis. First, can too much local interaction induce technological lock-in and restrict innovation in clusters? Second, does nonlocal interaction entail opportunity costs to clusters that can outweigh its benefits?