Resituating Proximity and Knowledge Cross-fertilization in Clusters by Means of International Trade Fairs

Ramírez‐Pasillas, Marcela

doi:10.1080/09654310802049158

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“…Lateral relationships are the linkages between and within members of non-related industries. As these relationships are significant for information acquisition [44], they are further beneficial to knowledge cross-fertilization and innovation [43].…”

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

2018

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Extant research indicates that temporary clusters, such as trade fairs and exhibitions, play a significant role in knowledge dissemination and innovation by creating global buzz, so they are beneficial to building global pipelines. However, these findings are mainly based on the experiences in the manufacturing sectors of developed countries. This paper, however, chooses Beijing as a case to examine whether or not international exhibitions in creative industries contribute to innovation in emerging economies. Based on questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews conducted in 2015-2016, this paper uses a structural equation model (SEM), with three latent variables related to global buzz, global pipelines, and information acquisition, to identify the internal patterns of exhibition innovation. The results indicate that there exists innovation generated from temporary clusters in knowledge-intensive sectors as well as emerging economies. Global buzz and global pipelines construct a favorable interaction ecology. However, global buzz plays a greater role than global pipelines. This insight should help organizers improve creative exhibitions in terms of innovation and provide a deeper understanding of the relationships between innovation, global buzz, and global pipelines in temporary clusters.

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Section: Relationships and Potential Pipelines Between Actors At Exhimentioning

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“…There are generally three kinds of potential industrial linkages, namely, horizontal, vertical, and lateral relationships [43]. Longitudinal relationships exist between the exhibitors, (potential) customers, suppliers, and other actors, and they are very common in commercial trade fairs.…”

Section: Relationships and Potential Pipelines Between Actors At Exhimentioning

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

2018

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“…Associated learning processes help firms understand market trends, maintain or build customer relationships, access new technological developments and find new partners in research, production and marketing. While many trade fairs are characterized by a growing share of 'atypical' visitors that have no intention of buying (Borghini et al 2006), even these events still focus market interactions between producer-sellers and visitor-buyers/users (Golfetto 2004;Power and Jansen 2008;Ramí rez-Pasillas 2008). Rinallo and Golfetto (2011) have introduced the concept of the temporary market to analyze market-related interaction between exhibitors and visitors.…”

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Geographies of temporary markets: an anatomy of the Canton Fair

Bathelt

Zhu

2017

European Planning Studies

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Always cite the published version, so the author(s) will receive recognition through services that track citation counts, e.g. Scopus. If you need to cite the page number of the TSpace version (original manuscript or accepted manuscript) because you cannot access the published version, then cite the TSpace version in addition to the published version using the permanent URI (handle) found on the record page. Geographies of Temporary Markets: An Anatomy of the Canton FairAbstract (ca. 120 words): While recent research on temporary clusters and temporary markets has emphasized the knowledge generation processes associated with trade fairs, little is known about the knowledge exchanges that are embedded in market relations at these events. This paper uses the case of the Canton Fair in Guangzhou, the largest trade fair in China, to illustrate that such events do not operate as a single market but that they generate multiple dynamic market configurations, which entail different flows of knowledge, goods and people. In a typical case study, four types of market configurations are identified that simultaneously develop at this event.The findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of market relations, knowledge and transactions in temporary spatial settings.

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“…From a knowledge-based perspective, particularly business-to-business events are key in developing new markets, initiating network relations and coordinating interaction between distant permanent locations (Prüser 2003;Bathelt and Schuldt 2008;Ramirez-Pasillas 2008). These events can be analyzed as temporary clusters (Maskell et al 2006) where firms from an entire value chain or technology field meet over a few consecutive days to discuss the development of markets, products, technological innovations, regulations and all sorts of news regarding their businessthus establishing a microcosm of this industry (Rosson and Seringhaus 1995).…”

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The Development of Trade Fair Ecologies in China: Case Studies from Chengdu and Shanghai

Bathelt

Zeng

2014

Environ Plan A

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Always cite the published version, so the author(s) will receive recognition through services that track citation counts, e.g. Scopus. If you need to cite the page number of the TSpace version (original manuscript or accepted manuscript) because you cannot access the published version, then cite the TSpace version in addition to the published version using the permanent URI (handle) found on the record page. 45/394The Development of Trade Fair Ecologies in China: Case Studies from Chengdu and Shanghai Abstract: Despite China's rapid economic growth, not much is known about the primary places where buyers and sellers from China and abroad meet, make business and circulate information and knowledge, i.e. the national and international trade fairs in the country. Previous reports suggest that the number and size of such events in China is growing and that the trade fair business is in the process of formation. Under these circumstances, we might expect that trade fairs are primarily organized as import or export fairs where buyers and sellers engage in market transactions. Using literature on the role of trade fairs as temporary clusters as a starting point, this paper aims to analyze which interaction and communication patterns can be identified at Chinese trade fairs and whether these events are characterized by similar characteristics as those in highly-industrialized economies. We hypothesize that the trade fair business changes quickly and merges towards structures similar to those in Europe and North America. To investigate this, an explorative study of three national/international trade fairs in Shanghai and Chengdu was designed, involving a total of 102 semi-structured interviews.

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Resituating Proximity and Knowledge Cross-fertilization in Clusters by Means of International Trade Fairs

Cited by 23 publications

References 35 publications

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

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

Geographies of temporary markets: an anatomy of the Canton Fair

The Development of Trade Fair Ecologies in China: Case Studies from Chengdu and Shanghai

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