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Firm Innovation and Region: The Role of Space in Innovation Processes

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  • Knut Koschatzky

    (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Breslauer Strasse 48, D-76139 Karlsruhe, Germany)

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Based on theoretical reflections about the importance of regions in firm innovation, it is the aim of this paper to assess the probability, as well as the degree, that structural (firm internal) and regional characteristics, such as the type of region, agglomeration economies, regional and inter-regional networking, account for the undertaking of product and process innovations. Guided by four core hypotheses incorporating different theoretical arguments, logistic regression models for urban, intermediate and peripheral regions are set up to test the explanatory contribution of firm-related and regional variables in the realisation of innovations in different regional environments. The data used in this paper originate from an industrial innovation survey carried out in several German regions and two French regions. It will be shown that for firms located in the regions under investigation, "space" clearly matters in innovation. However, this takes place more on a perceptive rather than on a politically defined territorial basis.

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  • Knut Koschatzky, 1998. "Firm Innovation and Region: The Role of Space in Innovation Processes," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 2(04), pages 383-408.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:02:y:1998:i:04:n:s1363919698000171
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919698000171
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    1. Martínez-Román, Juan A. & Gamero,Javier & Tamayo, Juan A. & Romero, José E., 2017. "Tipología de la empresa innovadora en productos y procesos en una región periférica europea /Typology of Firms Innovating in Products and Processes in a European Peripheral Region," Estudios de Economia Aplicada, Estudios de Economia Aplicada, vol. 35, pages 673-696, Agosto.
    2. Andræs Barge-Gil, 2013. "Open Strategies and Innovation Performance," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(7), pages 585-610, October.
    3. Alain Thierstein & Beate Willhelm, 2001. "Incubator, technology, and innovation centres in Switzerland: features and policy implications," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 315-331, October.
    4. Jankowska, Barbara & Götz, Marta & Główka, Cezary, 2017. "Intra-Cluster Cooperation Enhancing SMEs’ Competitiveness - The Role of Cluster Organisations in Poland," INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, issue 39, pages 195-214.
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    7. Martínez-Román, Juan A. & Gamero, Javier & Delgado-González, María de Loreto & Tamayo, Juan A., 2019. "Innovativeness and internationalization in SMEs: An empirical analysis in European countries," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    8. Kaufmann, Alexander & Todtling, Franz, 2001. "Science-industry interaction in the process of innovation: the importance of boundary-crossing between systems," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 30(5), pages 791-804, May.
    9. Dohse, Dirk, 2000. "Technology policy and the regions -- the case of the BioRegio contest," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 29(9), pages 1111-1133, December.
    10. Koschatzky, Knut & Zenker, Andrea, 1999. "The regional embeddedness of small manufacturing and service firms: regional networking as knowledge source for innovation?," Working Papers "Firms and Region" R2/1999, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
    11. Koschatzky, Knut & Bross, Ulrike, 1999. "Struktur und Dynamik von regionalen Innovationsnetzwerken unter Transformationsbedingungen - das Beispiel Slowenien," Working Papers "Firms and Region" R4/1999, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
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    13. Martínez-Román, Juan A. & Gamero, Javier & Tamayo, Juan A. & Delgado-González, Loreto, 2020. "Empirical analysis of organizational archetypes based on generation and adoption of knowledge and technologies," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 96.

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