Abstract
Extant research indicates that temporary clusters, such as trade fairs and exhibitions, play a significant role in knowledge dissemination and innovation by creating global buzz, so they are beneficial to building global pipelines. However, these findings are mainly based on the experiences in the manufacturing sectors of developed countries. This paper, however, chooses Beijing as a case to examine whether or not international exhibitions in creative industries contribute to innovation in emerging economies. Based on questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews conducted in 2015–2016, this paper uses a structural equation model (SEM), with three latent variables related to global buzz, global pipelines, and information acquisition, to identify the internal patterns of exhibition innovation. The results indicate that there exists innovation generated from temporary clusters in knowledge-intensive sectors as well as emerging economies. Global buzz and global pipelines construct a favorable interaction ecology. However, global buzz plays a greater role than global pipelines. This insight should help organizers improve creative exhibitions in terms of innovation and provide a deeper understanding of the relationships between innovation, global buzz, and global pipelines in temporary clusters.
Highlights
Nowadays, the importance of distance knowledge, as opposed to local knowledge, is being emphasized in the literature on industrial clusters [1,2,3]
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The case of the Beijing Design Week in this paper has confirmed that, as temporary creative clusters, exhibitions in creative sectors in emerging economies can be viewed as knowledge-intense events that bring about new ideas, inspirations, and further innovation
Summary
The importance of distance knowledge, as opposed to local knowledge, is being emphasized in the literature on industrial clusters [1,2,3]. Interactions with knowledge-intense institutions such as universities [28] and high-quality consumers with highly uncertain taste [25] are important for knowledge creation These characteristics suggest that the global buzz and global pipelines in temporary creative clusters could be facilitated by various actors in different geographical and industrial contexts—Bathelt points out that knowledge creation and diffusion processes embedded in the exhibitions are diverse in different countries or different industries [29]. There is a need for more complementary studies focusing on emerging economies as well as creative and knowledge-intensive industries To fill these gaps, this paper includes two dimensions to reveal the internal mechanisms of innovation in temporary clusters: (1) to enrich the case studies of temporary clusters and explore the interaction characteristics in different geographical and industrial contexts, and (2) to refine the relationships among ‘global buzz’, ‘global pipelines,’ and further information acquisition. This section focuses mainly on interactional exhibitions, and examines the notions of global buzz and global pipelines in this context
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