Absorptive capacity and space

Mário Alexandre Patrício Martins da Silva ()
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Mário Alexandre Patrício Martins da Silva: Faculdade de Economia do Porto

FEP Working Papers from Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto

Abstract: In this paper, we assume that the absorptive capacity of firms located in a given region is positively influenced by territorial-dependent aspects, and analyze the effects of the spatial elements that explain the differences between territories to access and absorb external knowledge on the innovative performance of regions and the possibility of arising local increasing returns.

Keywords: Absorptive capacity; knowledge spillovers; complementarities; proximity; innovation; R&D (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2015-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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