Innovation of knowledge intensive service firms in urban areas

Andrea Hammer

No 63, Working Paper Series in Economics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Department of Economics and Management

Abstract: This paper investigates the agglomeration of Knowledge Intensive Service (KIS) firms in urban areas. In accordance with the Regional Innovation Systems approach it is argued that cities provide crucial innovation advantages working as centripetal forces for KIS. Applying multivariate logit regressions to a company survey of the city of Karlsruhe, the second largest city of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, shows positive effects of local cooperation and urban infrastructures on the innovation probability of KIS firms. However, the effects vary with the type of innovation pursued, thus demonstrating a high complexity of local relations conducive to KIS firm innovation.

Keywords: Knowledge Intensive Services; Regional Innovation Systems; urban innovation; innovation in services; local cooperation; urban infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-knm, nep-sbm, nep-tid and nep-ure
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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000043688

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