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Determinants of Market Extension in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Evidence from a Regional Innovation System

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  • Marco Bettiol
  • Valentina De Marchi
  • Eleonora Di Maria
  • Roberto Grandinetti

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Several studies have emphasized the role of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in fostering innovation in metropolitan areas and regional innovation systems. Such areas are capable of expressing a strong demand for KIBS and consequently stimulate the rise and growth of KIBS. Despite an abundance of literature on KIBS emphasizing the relevance of spatial proximity to customers, many KIBS develop relationships on a broader national or even international scale. No studies have focused explicitly on this apparent discrepancy as yet. The aim of this paper is therefore to fill this theoretical and empirical gap by explaining the firm-level factors relating to the market extension of KIBS within the framework of regional innovation systems. Our analysis is based on a quantitative study on more than 150 KIBS supplying design or communication services located in the Veneto region (north-eastern Italy), an area that can be described as a regional innovation system. Five variables were considered, that is, size, experience, service standardization, investments in network technologies and relational intensity. Our results confirm that three of these variables, but not service standardization and relational intensity, correlate positively with the market extension of KIBS. Policy implications are also discussed.

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  • Marco Bettiol & Valentina De Marchi & Eleonora Di Maria & Roberto Grandinetti, 2013. "Determinants of Market Extension in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Evidence from a Regional Innovation System," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(4), pages 498-515, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:21:y:2013:i:4:p:498-515
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.722930
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    1. Feser, Daniel & Proeger, Till, 2015. "Knowledge-intensive business services as credence goods: A demand-side approach," University of Göttingen Working Papers in Economics 232, University of Goettingen, Department of Economics.
    2. Valentina De Marchi & Gary Gereffi & Roberto Grandinetti, 2017. "Distretti che evolvono nelle catene globali del valore: lezioni di resilienza dal Veneto," ECONOMIA E SOCIET? REGIONALE, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2017(2), pages 34-43.
    3. Daniel Feser & Till Proeger, 2018. "Knowledge-Intensive Business Services as Credence Goods—a Demand-Side Approach," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 9(1), pages 62-80, March.
    4. Roberta Apa & Valentina De Marchi & Roberto Grandinetti & Silvia Rita Sedita, 2021. "University-SME collaboration and innovation performance: the role of informal relationships and absorptive capacity," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 46(4), pages 961-988, August.
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    8. Valentina De Marchi & Roberto Grandinetti, 2017. "Regional Innovation Systems or Innovative Regions? Evidence from Italy," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 108(2), pages 234-249, April.
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