Innovation in peripheral regions: Do collaborations compensate for a lack of local knowledge spillovers?

Markus Grillitsch and Magnus Nilsson

The Annals of Regional Science, 2015, vol. 54, issue 1, 299-321

Abstract: It is widely accepted that firms in peripheral regions benefit to a lesser extent from local knowledge spillovers than firms located in agglomerations or industrial clusters. This paper investigates the extent to which innovative firms in peripheral regions compensate for the lack of access to local knowledge spillovers by collaborating at other geographical scales. So far, the literature predominantly suggests that collaborations complement rather than compensate for local knowledge spillovers. Using data on the collaboration patterns of innovative firms in Sweden, this paper provides evidence that firms with low access to local knowledge spillovers tend to collaborate more. This effect, however, depends on firm size and in-house capabilities. Our findings suggest that firms with strong in-house capabilities do indeed compensate for a lack of local knowledge spillovers with collaborations while firms with weaker in-house capabilities depend more on the regional knowledge infrastructure. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: R10; R11; O30; O31; O18; P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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