Knowledge transfers and innovation: The role of labour markets and R&D co‐operation between agents and institutions

Jaakko Simonen and Philip McCann ()

Papers in Regional Science, 2010, vol. 89, issue 2, 295-309

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates the role played by the knowledge transfers fostering innovation in Finnish high technology industries. In particular, we examine the roles played by both face‐to‐face knowledge transfers and also human capital transfers between different types of agents and institutions in the promotion of innovation. In order to examine these issues we employ a unique innovation dataset which provides information about a firm's innovation performance along with information regarding the geographical and sectoral origins of a firm's recent labour acquisitions, disaggregated according to different types of agents and institutions. This allows us to develop proxies for inter‐firm face‐to‐face knowledge exchanges and also human capital knowledge transfers. The analysis of these data allows us to identify the different roles which the geography of knowledge exchanges and labour markets between agents and institutions play in regional innovation processes. Resumen Este artículo investiga el rol de los procesos de transferencia de conocimiento que promueven la innovación en industrias finlandesas de alta tecnología. Examinamos en particular los roles de la transferencia de conocimiento cara a cara y de la transferencia de capital humano entre diferentes tipos de agentes e instituciones en fomentar la innovación. Para examinar estos temas empleamos un conjunto único de datos sobre innovación que proporciona información sobre el desempeño en innovación de una empresa junto con información acerca del origen geográfico y sectorial del reclutamiento laboral reciente de una empresa, desagregado de acuerdo a diferentes tipos de agentes e instituciones. Esto nos permite desarrollar sustitutivos para intercambios de conocimiento cara a cara entre firmas y también para transferencias de conocimiento mediante capital humano. El análisis de estos datos nos permite identificar los roles distintos de la geografía de intercambios de conocimiento y de los mercados laborales entre agentes e instituciones en los procesos de innovación regional.

Date: 2010
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