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APPLIED GEOGRAPHY
Volume 158, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103048
Keywords
Knowledge interaction; Dual innovation; Buzz-and-Pipeline; Interlocking directorates; Patent transfer; China's biomedical industry
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This study combines the 'Buzz-and-Pipeline' model with dual innovation theory to explain urban innovation capacity. Buzz and Pipeline, defined as inter-city-explicit knowledge and intra-city-tacit knowledge respectively, play different roles in the city's dual innovation capabilities. While their interaction has a positive impact on incremental innovation, it has a negative effect on breakthrough innovation. This study provides insights into strategies for developing countries to foster incremental and breakthrough innovation capabilities.
The dynamics of urban innovation capacity remain to be clarified, and this study combines the 'Buzz-andPipeline' model with dual innovation theory to explain urban innovation capacity. Specifically, from the two dimensions of spatial scale and knowledge type, inter-city-explicit knowledge and intra-city-tacit knowledge were used to define Buzz and Pipeline, respectively. Then, this study meticulously classifies urban innovation capabilities into two categories: incremental and breakthrough innovation. Further, this study focuses on how the knowledge interaction in the 'Buzz-and-Pipeline' framework drives urban dual innovation (incremental innovation, breakthrough innovation). An empirical study was conducted with the China's biomedical industry and the results showed that: Buzz and Pipeline have different mechanisms for the city's dual innovation capabilities. Both Buzz and Pipeline and their interaction have a positive impact on city's incremental innovation capacity. Both Buzz and Pipeline have an inverted U-shaped effect on city's breakthrough innovation, and their interaction has a negative impact. This study provides some insights into differentiated strategies for fostering incremental and breakthrough innovation capabilities in cities in developing countries.
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