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This paper analyzes the spatial aspects of social capital creation between co-localised start-ups and customers, aiming to explain the factors which may influence the diffusion of inter-organizational social networks inside industrial clusters. We suppose that local social capital is not a public good, but its creation depends both on proximity. between actors and on a sense of affiliation of an entrepreneur to the cluster. While the embeddedness of a start-up inside a cluster has a positive influence on the relational and cognitive dimensions of social capital, it negatively influences the structural dimension. Implications and future lines of research are discussed.
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Presutti, M., Boari, C. Space-related antecedents of social capital: some empirical inquiries about the creation of new firms. Int Entrep Manag J 4, 217–234 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-007-0063-y
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