By Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen
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The results of this estimation are partly consistent with Saxenian. Adding an additional employee at a small firm typically has a positive effect on births and new firm employment. Adding the employee at a large firm typically does not. To the extent that small firms are more open, this result is consistent with Saxenian. The performance of the subsidiary/nonsubsidiary variable is unexpected. In this case, an extra worker at a subsidiary establishment has a larger effect on the attraction of new own-industry arrivals.
This kind of knowledge ACTC01 17 18/04/2006, 12:20PM S. S. ROSENTHAL 18 AND W. C. STRANGE spillover depends crucially on physical proximity, as Tom Furlong of Digital Electronics Corporation notes: Physical proximity is important to just about everything we do. I have better relationships with Silicon Valley companies than I have even with my own company . . because I can just get in the car and go see them . . You never work on the same level if you do it by telephone and airplane. It’s very hard to work together long distance.