How does Accessibility to Knowledge Sources Affect the Innovativeness of Corporations? Evidence from Sweden

Olof Ejermo () and Martin Andersson ()

No 2005-04, CIRCLE Electronic Working Paper Series from CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy), Lund University

Abstract: This paper studies the innovative performance of 130 Swedish corporations during 1993-94. The number of patents per corporation is explained as a function of the accessibility to internal and external knowledge sources of each corporation. A coherent way of handling accessibility measures, within and between corporations located across regions, is introduced. We examine the relative importance of intra- and interregional knowledge sources from i) the own corporation, ii) other corporations, and iii) universities. The results show that there is a positive relationship between the innovativeness of a corporation and its accessibility to university researchers within regions where own research groups are located. Good accessibility among the corporations research units does not have any significant effects on the likelihood of generation of patents. Instead the size of the R&D staff of the corporation seems to be the most important internal factor. There is no indication that intraregional accessibility to other corporations research is important for a corporations innovativeness. However, there is some indication of reduced likelihood for own corporate patenting when other corporate R&D is located in nearby regions. This may reflect a negative effect from competition for R&D labor.

JEL-codes: O31 O32 O33 O34 O38 N5 O47 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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Working Paper: How does Accessibility to Knowledge Sources affect the Innovativeness of Corporations? - Evidence from Sweden (2004)
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