INNOVATION ACTIVITIES EXPLAINED BY FIRM ATTRIBUTES AND LOCATION

Börje Johansson and Hans Lööf ()

No 63, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: This paper examines systematically the importance of location versus a vector of firm attributes on firms’ innovation engagements. The various factors that can influence a firm’s innovation efforts are divided into (i) firm location, reflecting the regional milieu, and (ii) firm attributes such as corporate structure, nature of the knowledge production, type of industry and a set of specific firm characteristics. The study is based on information about 2, 094 individual Swedish firms, where a firm may be non-affiliated or belong to a group (multi-firm enterprise), domestically or foreign owned. The study concludes that the propensity to be innovative differs between the five macro-region investigated. Among innovative firms, however, the R&D intensity as well as most other innovation-activity characteristics remain invariant with regard to location, when controlling for the skill composition, physical capital intensity, industry, corporate structure firm, size and market extension

Keywords: Functional regions; innovation systems; corporate structure; R&D (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 G34 L22 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2006-05-04
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Forthcoming in Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2007.

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