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Localised Knowledge Spillovers and Trade Competitiveness: The Case of Italy

In: Innovation, Networks and Localities

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  • Stefano Breschi
  • Daniela Palma

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This chapter aims to provide an empirical examination of the relationship between international trade and innovative activities at the regional level, by adopting a spatial econometric approach. In recent years, interest in the spatial dimension of trade and knowledge flows has grown rapidly. On the one hand, some authors have pointed out that the geographical concentration of knowledge spillovers may play a fundamental role in shaping national and regional patterns of specialisation and comparative advantages (Grossman and Helpman 1991). If knowledge flows only take place within well defined spatial boundaries (national or regional), then some regions or countries, given an initial technological endowment, will deepen their patterns of specialisation through cumulative processes. On the other hand, a different line of research has attempted to measure knowledge and to trace knowledge flows.

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  • Stefano Breschi & Daniela Palma, 1999. "Localised Knowledge Spillovers and Trade Competitiveness: The Case of Italy," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Manfred M. Fischer & Luis Suarez-Villa & Michael Steiner (ed.), Innovation, Networks and Localities, chapter 8, pages 155-180, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-58524-1_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-58524-1_8
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    1. Beugelsdijk, S. & Cornet, M., 2001. "How far do They Reach? The Localization of Industrial and Academic Knowledge Spillovers in the Netherlands," Discussion Paper 2001-47, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
    2. Daniela Palma & Alessandro Zini, 2005. "Technological change and industry competitiveness through the evolution of localised comparative advantages - The case of Italy," ERSA conference papers ersa05p641, European Regional Science Association.
    3. Urban Gråsjö, 2008. "University-educated Labor, R&D and Regional Export Performance," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 31(3), pages 211-256, July.
    4. Andersson, Martin & Johansson, Sara, 2010. "Human capital and the structure of regional export flows," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 230-240.
    5. Sara Johansson & Charlie Karlsson, 2007. "R&D accessibility and regional export diversity," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 41(3), pages 501-523, September.

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