Building global knowledge pipelines: The role of temporary clusters

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Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

“…In order to understand conditions for successful regions, geographers have therefore repeated that it is important to study trans-local networks that are constituted by different dimensions of proximity, besides geographical also cultural, organizational or cognitive proximity (Boschma, 2005). In the regional studies literature in general, it is taken for granted that innovative regions do not only dependent on local embedding but equally on the ability of actors to access assets provided by global networks (Asheim and Isaksen, 2002;Bunnell and Coe, 2001;Maskell et al, 2006); Carlsson and Stankiewicz (1991). As a consequence, the prospering of an internationally extensive TIS may depend on the ability to differentially access assets that are available in many different territorial contexts.…”

Do Temporary Creative Clusters Promote Innovation in an Emerging Economy?—A Case Study of the Beijing Design Week

“…Temporary clusters have many forms, e.g., conventions, congresses, trade fairs, conferences, and exhibitions [12,19]. This section focuses mainly on interactional exhibitions, and examines the notions of global buzz and global pipelines in this context.…”

“…The relationships between different actors from different regions or even countries facilitate the building up of 'global pipelines', which some scholars term [12,30] as information and knowledge transfer. Unlike global buzz at exhibitions, global pipelines actually are formal, structured, and thoroughly planned linkages [30,46] and require conscious efforts and substantial investments [13,33].…”

“…Their 'get-together' brings about a specific atmosphere, which is helpful for learning and knowledge diffusion [17]. Various actors, e.g., exhibitors, visitors, customers, suppliers, and professionals, congregate in the same space-time and bring considerable heterogeneous information and distant knowledge [12]. This increases the opportunities for participants to discover something novel [17], and the peers, institutions, or information at the exhibition enlighten participants with inspiration at the scene or after the activities [35].…”

“…Cross-regional interactions, which usually rely on periodic, temporary, and face-to-face communications [2], such as 'pipelines' [9], 'listening posts' [10], 'crowdsourcing' [11], trade fairs [12], and other professional gatherings [13], are becoming as important as local interactions [2]. Recently, economic geographers have extended their academic interests to the role of exhibitions in knowledge The remainder of this paper is structured as follows.…”