Localised Knowledge Spillovers and Trade Competitiveness: The Case of Italy

Stefano Breschi and Daniela Palma

Chapter 8 in Innovation, Networks and Localities, 1999, pp 155-180 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter aims to provide an empirical examination of the relationship between international trade and innovative activities at the regional level, by adopting a spatial econometric approach. In recent years, interest in the spatial dimension of trade and knowledge flows has grown rapidly. On the one hand, some authors have pointed out that the geographical concentration of knowledge spillovers may play a fundamental role in shaping national and regional patterns of specialisation and comparative advantages (Grossman and Helpman 1991). If knowledge flows only take place within well defined spatial boundaries (national or regional), then some regions or countries, given an initial technological endowment, will deepen their patterns of specialisation through cumulative processes. On the other hand, a different line of research has attempted to measure knowledge and to trace knowledge flows.

Keywords: Spatial Dependence; Knowledge Spillover; Trade Performance; Innovative Activity; Patent Activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-58524-1_8

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