The geography of innovation in small and medium-sized firms in West Germany

Pfirrmann, Oliver

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“…incubators and science parks Westhead (1997) 1989; Kleinknecht and Poot, 1992;Feldman, 1994;Goss and Vozikis, 1994;Pfirrmann, 1994Pfirrmann, , 1995Leung and Wu, 1995). From the incubation business literature reviewed (Allen, 1985;Allen and Levine, 1986;Smilor and Gill, 1986;Campbell et al, 1988;Mian, 1991;Rice, 1983) it is clear that most of the incubator-related knowledge does not have a sound theoretical base of its own and is by and large anecdotal in nature (Mian, 1996).…”

Section: Review Of Literature ± Technologymentioning

confidence: 96%

Science parks in Sweden – industrial renewal and development?

2001

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Science parks provide an important resource network for new technology‐based firms (NTBFs). To ascertain the ‘added value’ of a science park location the innovativeness of independent technology‐based science park firms are compared with the levels recorded by a comparable group of firms not located on a park. The hypotheses are empirically tested on the basis of 263 new technology‐based firms in Sweden located both on and off‐park. The survey endeavoured to cover joint‐stock firms located on the nine target science parks (163 firms). The remainder of the NTBFs were drawn from off‐park locations (100 firms). The findings on science parks performance suggest that the parks milieu appear to have a positive impact on their firms growth as measured in terms of sales and jobs. However, there was no evidence of a direct relationship between science park location and profitability. While this research provided several new insights into science parks in Sweden, numerous questions remain.

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Section: Review Of Literature ± Technologymentioning

confidence: 96%

Science parks in Sweden – industrial renewal and development?

2001

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“…As intimated above, there is a growing literature surrounding the relationship between a firm's environment and its ability to innovate (Davelaar and Nijkamp, 1989;Kleinknecht and Poot, 1992;Feldman, 1994;Goss and Vozikis, 1994;Pfirrmann, 1994Pfirrmann, , 1995Leung and Wu, 1995). To contribute to this debate, this paper focuses upon levels of innovation within independent firms located on Science Parks in the United Kingdom.…”

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R&D ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’ of technology‐based firms located on and off Science Parks

Westhead

1997

R & D Management

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Science Parks (adjacent to universities) provide an important resource network for technology-based firms. To ascertain the 'added value' of a Science Park location the innovativeness (with regard to a variety of 'input' as well as 'output' measures) of independent technologybased Science Park firms are compared with the levels recorded by a comparable group of firms not located on a Park. Empirical evidence collected in 1992 93 from firms in a 'follow-on' sample (originally interviewed in 1986) as well as a 'new sample' study (independent firms that had located on a Science Park between 1986 and 1992) both revealed no statistically significant differences between the two groups on a variety of innovativeness measures. Results from both samples suggest Science Park firms do not directly invest more in R&D than off-Park firms nor do they record significantly higher levels of technology diffusion. The policy implications of the research findings are discussed.

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“…By comparing the relative importance of firm and local resources and capabilities, Pfirrmann (1994) for a sample of Small and Medium Enterprises in Germany, Sternberg and Arndt (2001) on a sample of European firms mainly of medium and small size and Beugelsdijk (2007) for a sample of Dutch firms, all show that firm-specific resources are generally more important than a firm's regional environment for any kind of product innovation. Although this literature casts a shadow on the relevance of inter-firm interactions within bounded territories for firm growth and diversification processes, in our view, the concept of technological relatedness can redeem the absolute and relative contribution of local knowledge by shedding light on the circumstances under which and to what extent a regional environment can matter for product innovation.…”

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“…The relevance of both within-firm and local cognitive proximities for innovation recalls an important literature debate on the quantification of the absolute and relative contribution of the existence of a fertile regional environment versus a firm's endowment of suitable capabilities for product innovation (Pfirrmann, 1994;Sternberg and Arndt, 2001;Beugelsdijk, 2007;Wang and Lin, 2012). larger knowledge base can importantly contribute to reduce a firm's entry cost in a brand new technology (Perez and Soete, 1988).…”

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On firms’ product space evolution: the role of firm and local product relatedness

Turco

Maggioni

2015

J Econ Geogr

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We explore the role of firm-and local product-specific capabilities in fostering the introduction of new products in the Turkish manufacturing. Firms' product space evolution is characterised by strong cognitive path dependence that, however, is relaxed by firm heterogeneity in terms of size, efficiency and international exposure. The introduction of new products in laggard Eastern regions, which is importantly linked to the evolution of their industrial output, is mainly affected by firm's internal productspecific resources. On the contrary, product innovations in Western advanced regions hinge relatively more on the availability of local technological-related competencies.

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The geography of innovation in small and medium-sized firms in West Germany

Cited by 29 publications

References 8 publications

Science parks in Sweden – industrial renewal and development?

Science parks in Sweden – industrial renewal and development?

R&D ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’ of technology‐based firms located on and off Science Parks

On firms’ product space evolution: the role of firm and local product relatedness

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