Does the composition of regional knowledge bases influence extra-regional collaboration for innovation?

Ebersberger, Bernd; Herstad, Sverre J.; Koller, Christophe

doi:10.1080/13504851.2013.848019

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“…This decreases the social and institutional distance (Boschma 2005) to actors and business contexts abroad. Consequently, while independent innovation-active KIBS located outside urban regions may need to establish extra-regional collaboration networks in order to overcome local resource constraints (Doloreux and Shearmur 2012;O'Farrell, Zheng, and Wood 1996), those located in urban regions are more likely to combine domestic and Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 215 international collaboration because the former expresses the existence of place-specific resources that are also conducive to the latter (Ebersberger, Herstad, and Koller 2014). Based on this, a last hypothesis can be developed:…”

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Urban agglomerations, knowledge-intensive services and innovation: establishing the core connections

Herstad

Ebersberger

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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This paper investigates how resources available in urban agglomerations influence the organizational form, innovation activity and collaborative linkages of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms. Compared with their counterparts elsewhere, KIBS located in Norwegian large city labour market regions are more likely to be independent of multi-establishment business organizations and thus reliant on resources available externally, in their locations. This is most pronounced in the central and Western business districts of the capital, wherein independent KIBS exhibit high turnover of professionals and are less inclined to engage actively in innovation. Yet, those that do engage use the capital region economy as a platform for engaging with both domestic and international collaboration partners. Only by consecutively analysing these aspects and accounting for the selection processes involved is the empirical analysis able to uncover contrasting firm-level responses to the same urban economy resource base.

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Urban agglomerations, knowledge-intensive services and innovation: establishing the core connections

Herstad

Ebersberger

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…As these are factors that may exert their own independent influences on the innovation activity and collaboration choices of firms (e.g. Ebersberger et al, 2014), future research on the location-behavior link should consider a broader range of characteristics than urbanization per se.…”

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Innovation strategy choices in the urban economy

Herstad

2017

Urban Studies

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This paper analyzes how the innovation strategies of individual firms reflect the density, diversity and international connectivity of their urban locations. It makes three contributions. Theoretically, it argues that observed strategies reflect a series of inter-related choices, and that each may be influenced differently by the knowledge dynamics of firms' locations. Empirically, it uses Norwegian Community Innovation Survey data to demonstrate how firms in the Capital are less inclined to engage in innovation activities, but also more likely to commit strongly once engaged, than are comparable firms located elsewhere. Methodologically, it illustrates how the results of sequential regressions on inter-related strategy choices differ from those obtained using a more conventional estimation strategy. Implications for innovation policy and research are drawn.

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“…In this way, EEG fails to acknowledge explicitly how global network linkages in their various forms can contribute substantially to the extension, renewal or even transformation of regional development pathways (Ebersberger, Herstad, and Koller 2014). This becomes problematic in a context where such networks are growing in importance to innovation for individual firms (Kafouros, Buckley, and Clegg 2012;Herstad, Aslesen, and Ebersberger 2014;Fitjar and Rodríguez-Pose 2012).…”

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“…Still, this framework provides a means for research to systematically address the question of how international ties are enabled or constrained by specific regional histories and characteristics. For instance, overall 'thinness' or strong industrial specialization may increase the need for regions to access cognitive resources developed externally (Chaminade and Plechero 2015;O'Farrell, Zheng, and Wood 1996), yet at the same time constrain their ability to do so due to overall peripherality (Johanson and Vahlne 2009) and lock-in effects at the level of firms (Narula 2002;Ebersberger, Herstad, and Koller 2014). Moreover, by demonstrating how the diffusion and impact of spillovers is generally associated with the history and composition of regional industrial structures, EEG also relates to, albeit implicitly, the question of whether and when spillovers from global network nodes are transformed into impetus for regional innovation.…”

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Advancing regional innovation systems: What does evolutionary economic geography bring to the policy table?

Coenen

Asheim

Bugge

et al. 2016

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The evolutionary turn in economic geography has shed new light on historically contingent regional preconditions for innovation and economic growth, which has the potential of improving the analytical input to regional innovation system approaches. Evolutionary economic geography has renewed interest in and sharpened the conceptual lens on firms, their organizational routines and knowledge bases as well as the long-term, self-sustaining development dynamics, which may arise from their co-location in regions. At the same, it has been pointed out that an overreliance on imported evolutionary frameworks (such as Nelson and Winter's theory of the firm and their lack of an explicit social ontology) may lead to a 'theoretical relegation' of institutions and agency. It seems also that the policy agenda of evolutionary economic geography has remained largely implicit. In comparison, regional innovation system has been developed in closer interaction with policy-makers and has been used widely as a framework for the design, implementation and evaluation of regional innovation policies in a variety of countries and regions. The purpose of this article is to critically investigate what evolutionary economic geography brings to the policy table, and how this potentially can advance a regional innovation systems approach. The article specially focuses on how this may improve the capacity of policies based on a regional innovation system framework to support new path development (i.e. path renewal and path creation) to secure regional resilience.

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Does the composition of regional knowledge bases influence extra-regional collaboration for innovation?

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Urban agglomerations, knowledge-intensive services and innovation: establishing the core connections

Urban agglomerations, knowledge-intensive services and innovation: establishing the core connections

Innovation strategy choices in the urban economy

Advancing regional innovation systems: What does evolutionary economic geography bring to the policy table?

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