Substituting face-to-face contacts in academics’ collaborations: modern communication tools, proximity, and brokerage

Werker, Claudia; Ooms, Ward

doi:10.1080/03075079.2019.1655723

Cited by 15 publications

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“…In fact, knowledge integration rests on a minimum level of cognitive overlap, with temporary geographical proximity being argued to play a supportive role (Boschma, 2005;Santos et al, 2020;Torre, 2008). Recent research demonstrate that for academics in relationships with industry partners, temporary face-to-face contact, in combination with modern communication tools, is crucial to overcoming cognitive distance (Werker & Ooms, 2020). On the other hand, research also demonstrates that cognitive proximity is a substitute for geographical proximity in stimulating longdistance collaboration (Garcia et al, 2018).…”

Section: Temporary Geographical and Cognitive Proximitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The significance of knowledge readiness for co-creation in university industry collaborations

Mathisen

Jørgensen

2021

Innovation

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This study explores value co-creation in university industry collaborations. The study is inspired by the constructivist approach to grounded theory and self-ethnography and based on interviews with 27 informants (eleven industry mentors and 16 academics) engaged in university industry collaborations. The findings suggest that co-creation depends on knowledge readiness and knowledge readiness develops through an interplay between temporary geographical and cognitive proximity. This study contributes to the existing literature on value co-creation, university industry collaborations, and proximity as follows: first, we shed light on the use of the co-creation perspective to enhance understandings of how value can be co-created in university industry collaborations. Second, we introduce the concept of knowledge readiness and demonstrate that co-creation in university industry collaborations between academics and industry mentors rests on knowledge readiness. Knowledge readiness concerns knowledge use and develops in the interplay between temporary geographical and cognitive proximity. We describe knowledge readiness as a subdimension of cognitive proximity. Knowledge readiness takes time to develop and is important for value co-creation and, subsequently, innovation in university industry collaborations.

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Section: Temporary Geographical and Cognitive Proximitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The significance of knowledge readiness for co-creation in university industry collaborations

Mathisen

Jørgensen

2021

Innovation

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“…That is, students have an active role in both learning processes as setting goals, managing activities or the choice of resources to use, among others [32][33][34][35]. On the other hand, the technological paradigm conceives the PLE as a kind of platform composed of a content repository with different management and communication tools [36][37][38]. In this perspective of the PLE, students develop a digital identity and they determine what information to share and when, with whom to share it with and how to do it effectively, and when and whom to merge with to exchange experiences [39,40].…”

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Use of Mobile Technologies in Personal Learning Environments of Intercultural Contexts: Individual and Group Tasks

2020

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This paper presents the results of the analysis of the personal learning environments (PLE) used individually and in groups by fifth grade primary education students. The main objective was to determine if the use of mobile technologies in the students’ PLEs encouraged their school integration and learning in intercultural communities. For this, a content analysis of the students’ responses to an ad hoc interview was carried out, with a content validity index of 0.89. The students represented their answers using 41 concept maps in the individual tasks and 5 in the group tasks, which were analyzed with the Nvivo software in its latest version. The results show the categorization of the students’ responses in three dimensions: read, make/reflection and relationship. Among the main conclusions, it was obtained that, in both types of tasks, the strategies and tools that fostered intercultural relationships, intercultural education and communication between the students, and therefore school integration, are mostly linked to the use of mobile technologies applications, such as Wikipedia, the internet, Word, PowerPoint, social networks and YouTube, although it is essential to develop more studies to have more data to understand the phenomenon in depth.

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“…For instance, technological systems for ERP, SCM or CRM make it possible for firms to integrate knowledge resources through backward linkage with suppliers and forward linkage with customers. In addition, IT infrastructure opens new opportunities for collaborative innovation at a distance (Werker and Ooms, 2019). IT infrastructure facilitates interactions between a firm and its external innovation partners, thus strengthening the positive impact of innovation modes on a firm's innovation performance.…”

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Are all innovation modes beneficial to firms’ innovation performance? New findings from an emerging market

Wang

Zhang

2020

CMS

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Purpose This paper aims to examine the influence of individual and combined effects of the mode focused on scientific and technological-based innovation (STI) and the mode based on learning by doing, by using and by interacting (DUI) on firms’ innovation performance and whether information technology (IT) moderates the relation between different innovation modes and firms’ innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual model linking innovation modes, IT (including IT infrastructure and the frequency of IT usage) and firms’ innovation performance was developed, and the proposed hypotheses were tested empirically using World Bank’s micro survey data collected from manufacturing firms in an emerging market (China). Findings The results show that individually both STI mode of innovation and DUI mode of innovation have a significant positive effect on firms’ innovative performance, whereas the combined STI and DUI mode of innovation has a negative impact. IT infrastructure moderates the relation between STI (or STI and DUI) mode of innovation and firms’ innovation performance, while the frequency of IT usage has no moderating effects on the relationship between any kind of innovation modes and firms’ innovation performance. Research limitations/implications Although some results are quite different from what is expected, these are insightful for both academics and policymakers. The use of cross-sectional data has its limitations. Therefore, future studies based on longitudinal data should be conducted. This study points toward the need to conduct the meta-analysis to better explain the existing inconsistencies in the findings of relevant quantitative studies. Practical implications This study provides firm managers with practical implications. The conclusions of this study imply that the impact of the combined STI and DUI mode of innovation is likely to be contextual, so firms should make contingent decisions on whether to engage in STI mode of innovation and DUI mode of innovation simultaneously according to their own organizational conditions. Moreover, face-to-face contacts are particularly important when a firm engages in DUI mode of innovation. In addition, the focus of IT strategy of firms engaged in STI mode of innovation should be on perfecting their IT infrastructure rather than increasing the frequency of IT usage. Originality/value This paper provides new evidence for the relation between business innovation modes and firms’ innovation performance, and it is one of the few empirical studies that focus on emerging markets. More importantly, this paper proposes a persuasive explanation framework for understanding the heterogeneous impacts of the combined STI and DUI mode of innovation on firms’ innovation performance. This is the first study that examines the moderating effect of IT on the relationship between business innovation modes and a firm’s innovation performance.

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Substituting face-to-face contacts in academics’ collaborations: modern communication tools, proximity, and brokerage

Cited by 15 publications

References 55 publications

The significance of knowledge readiness for co-creation in university industry collaborations

The significance of knowledge readiness for co-creation in university industry collaborations

Use of Mobile Technologies in Personal Learning Environments of Intercultural Contexts: Individual and Group Tasks

Are all innovation modes beneficial to firms’ innovation performance? New findings from an emerging market

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