Transforming Regional Knowledge Bases: A Network and Machine Learning Approach to Link Entrepreneurial Experimentation and Regional Absorptive Capacity

Jessica Birkholz

No 2205, Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation from University of Bremen, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics

Abstract: This study explores the regional innovation system characteristics that build the basis for the regional absorptive capacity of entrepreneurial knowledge. Regionalized patent data is combined with firm level and regional information for German regions over the period 1995 until 2015. Network analysis is applied to identify regional innovation system characteristics on three different layers: 1) cooperation between incumbent firms, 2) learning regimes, and 3) the technological knowledge base. Random forest analyses on basis of conditional inference classification trees are used to identify the most important characteristics for the regional absorption of entrepreneurial knowledge in general and on different efficiency levels. It is shown that characteristics on all three layers impact the regional absorption of entrepreneurial knowledge. Further, the direction and magnitude of the effect regional innovation system characteristics have on the regional knowledge absorption vary across different levels of absorption rates. It is concluded that for a successful implementation of policies to increase the impact of entrepreneurial knowledge on regional development, the regional innovation system needs to be monitored and adapted continuously.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Regional absorptive capacity; Smart specialization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D85 L26 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2022-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-big, nep-cmp, nep-ent, nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-knm, nep-sbm, nep-tid and nep-ure
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DOI: 10.26092/elib/1513

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