| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 地政研究所 === 98 === In the knowledge-based economy, innovation has become a key source of firms’ competitive advantage.The process of knowledge creation, transmission, transformation and application promotes the innovative activities. Meanwhile, the link geographical proximity and innovation performance of firms has become a modern issue of regional economic and industrial study. Also, the researchers gradually realized that the heterogeneity of individual firms, and then pay more ateentionon the internal capabilities of individual firms, thence the absorptive capacity seems to be a decisive element.
Our research regards bio-technology industry as the subject promptly.Through sending questionnaires and using factor analysis and structural equation modeling as analysis tool, we observe “proximity” – the nature of geographical proximity and organizational proximity, and how can absorptvie capacity play the interface role between external knowledge and internal capacity, and further connect the external knowledge with internal absorptive capacity and innovation performance.
The major results of study were found:
1. In the respect of external knowledge, geography proximity plays a crucial role in affecting organizational proximity and innovation performance.
2. External knowledge has a positive influence on absorptive capacity.
3. On the other hand, absorptive capacity affects the innovation permance of firms.
4. However, concerning the external knowledge, absorptive capacity results to positive but not significant on innovation performance.It implies that external knowledge directly impacts on innovation performance.
Keyword：Geographical proximity, Organizational proximity, Industerial network, Absorptive capacity, Innovation performance
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