Innovation and location in German knowledge intensive business service firms

Stephan Brunow, Andrea Hammer and Philip McCann
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Andrea Hammer: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT
Philip McCann: The University of Sheffield

No 201722, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore, geographical proximity to markets, customers and suppliers would be expected to be a critical factor in their performance. This paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest city and also to the size of the nearest city. For this purpose we make use of detailed firm level data and consider Germany as a research field. While most current evidence on this topic emerges from Canada, we complements and add to this existing literature on the geography of KIBS by examining these issues in the German spatial setting which largely conforms to a textbook type of spatial urban hierarchy. Our probit results indeed find that there are very strong distance decay and city size effects, and these also vary according to the innovation type." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Innovation; regionale Faktoren; Stadt-Umland-Beziehungen; unternehmensbezogene Dienstleistungen; Wissensarbeit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 L84 O31 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2017
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