This paper focuses on private sources of knowledge specifically customers and competitors as sources of innovative activity. Our main argument is that the two sources are correlated even after controlling for several factors at the level of technology, individual and organization. What is more, we show that the geographical distance of these sources modifies the intensity of this correlation, i...

While the geographical domain has long been involved as an important part of the Linked Data, the small amount of Chinese linked geographical data impedes the integration and sharing of both Chinese and cross-lingual knowledge. In this paper, we contribute to the development of a new Chinese linked geographical dataset named Clinga, by obtaining data from the largest Chinese wiki encyclopedia. ...

We present an approach to the process of constructing knowledge through structured exploration of large spatiotemporal data sets. First, we introduce our problem context and de® ne both Geographic Visualization (GVis) and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), the source domains for methods being integrated. Next, we review and compare recent GVis and KDD developments and consider the potentia...

Ontology is a requirement engineering product and the key to knowledge discovery. It includes the terminology to describe a set of facts, assumptions, and relations with which the detailed meanings of vocabularies among communities can be determined. This is a qualitative content analysis research. This study has made use of ontology for the first time to discover the knowledge of vaccine in Ir...

following a boom in writing geographical books during the first centuries of the islamic era, a period of surprising recession occurs during the safavids. although it started a century before the safavids and dragged on for another one, and since the european geographical explorations were still ongoing and the science of geography developed vastly, it seems more surprising and prominent. amid ...

In the current competitive world, organizations can reach competitive advantage which support entrepreneurship by providing the required tools. One of the most important tools for developing entrepreneurship which was neglected in previous studies is organizational knowledge management. The present paper aims to shed light on the role and importance of knowledge management in sport entreprene...

This extended abstract summarises our current research which spans the fields of knowledge discovery and software agents. Knowledge discovery (or data-mining) is concerned with extracting knowledge from databases and/or knowledge bases (Piatetsky-Shapiro & Frawley, 1991) using machine learning techniques. Traditionally, data-mining systems are designed to work on a single dataset. However, with...

Existing studies have often failed to find positive impacts of horizontal FDI on domestic firms. We argue that the two effects underpinning the impacts of horizontal FDI (i.e., the positive spillover effect and the negative competition effect) have different degrees of attenuation with geographic distance. As FDI is often distributed unevenly across space, studies that do not account for the ge...

This paper studies the effect of supplier-customer relationship on supplier innovation through a knowledge spillover channel. We use the geographical distance between a supplier and its major customers to capture knowledge spillovers along the supply chain. To establish causality, we explore plausibly exogenous variation in distance caused by customer headquarters relocations. In a difference-i...