articles: Firm clustering and innovation: Determinants and effects

Frans W.M. Boekema (), Marius T.H. Meeus () and Leon A.G. Oerlemans ()
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Frans W.M. Boekema: Faculty of Policy Sciences, University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9108, NL-6500 HK, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Department of Economics, University of Tilburg, Warandelaan 2, NL-5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Marius T.H. Meeus: Department of Innovation Studies, University of Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 8, NL-3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Leon A.G. Oerlemans: Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, NL-5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Papers in Regional Science, 2001, vol. 80, issue 3, 337-356

Abstract: In this article we ask why innovator firms engage in innovation networks, and which factors explain the spatial dispersion of these networks. Benefits of the use of internal and external knowledge resources for innovative performance of firms were partially confirmed. Especially the utilisation of external competences drawn from buyers and suppliers had stronger effects on innovative performance if complexity of innovation projects was high. Spatial concentration of innovation networks of buyers and suppliers turned out to have a reciprocal, positive relation with interaction intensity between firms. Interaction enhances spatial concentration of relations and vice versa, although the strength of effects differs for ties with buyers and suppliers. Finally we found that higher regional economic embeddedness increases spatial concentration of innovation networks, whereas R& D effort had no effect at all.

Keywords: Organisational and spatial embeddedness; innovation output; networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O32 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-07-17
Note: Received: 11 October 2000
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