The Research On The Influence Of Organizational Proximity And Organizational Context On The Spatial Distance Sensitivity Of Cooperative Innovation

With the rapid development of economy and technology, the technology and market environment which enterprises are facing is becoming more and more complex, the uncertainty of innovation is also increasing, more and more organizations move towards the path of cooperation innovation, they share knowledge and resources, and conduct a joint research and development activities. With the tacit knowledge and knowledge spillover theory proposed, the research on organizational cooperative innovation begins to pay more attention to the new view of multi-dimensional proximity in the academia, and one of the hot spot is the research about the influence on cooperative innovation of geographical proximity which is closely related to the spatial economics. Previous studies on the mechanism of geographical proximity on cooperative innovation mainly conduct from fixed static spatial perspective, they ignore to analyse the nature and internal mechanism of cooperative innovation from the perspective of the interaction.On the basis of existing research, the paper will analyse the spatial distance sensitivity of organization cooperative innovation from variable dynamic spatial perspective, and further investigate the relationship between geographical proximity with organization cooperative innovation. On the basis of the multi-dimensional proximity theory and comparative management theory, this paper deeply analyse the direct and indirect influence mechanisms of geographical proximity on organization cooperative innovation, propose a comparative study framework which is used to analyse the differences between different types of cooperative innovation, explore the impact of organizational proximity and context on the spatial distance sensitivity of organization cooperative innovation, and raise the research hypothesis and model. The paper selects the invention patents of Chinese iron and steel industry in 2001-2011 as the research samples, applies descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, OLS and Ordinal Logistic Regression methods to analyse the sample data.The results show that:the degree of spatial distance sensitivity varies as the degree of organizational proximity and context. The higher the degree of organizational proximity is, the lower the degree of spatial distance sensitivity is, the larger the cooperative distance is. Among the 3 types of cooperative innovation whose organizational context is different, the degree of spatial distance sensitivity to industry-academia-research cooperation is the highest, the cooperative distance is the minimal; The degree to academic institution cooperation is secondary, the distance is the middle; The degree to enterprise cooperation is the lowest, the distance is the largest.