Limits of Social Capital as a Driver of Innovation: An Empirical Analysis in the Context of European Regions

Carmen Echebarria and José Barrutia

Regional Studies, 2013, vol. 47, issue 7, 1001-1017

Abstract: Echebarria C. and Barrutia J. M. Limits of social capital as a driver of innovation: an empirical analysis in the context of European regions, Regional Studies . The available empirical research referring to different units of analysis supports, in general terms, a linear positive relationship among some components of social capital and innovation. Yet some studies also present controversial results by finding non-significant, negative, diminishing returns and quadratic relationships. Building on the social network theory of innovation, this paper shows that the social capital--innovation relationship has an inverted 'U'-shape. This is consistent with recent research that suggests that some sub-constructs of social capital, such as tie strength, involve maintenance and opportunity costs and that social capital has positive effects, but it also has its limits.

Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (16)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00343404.2011.603720 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:regstd:v:47:y:2013:i:7:p:1001-1017

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/CRES20

DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.603720

Access Statistics for this article

Regional Studies is currently edited by Ivan Turok

More articles in Regional Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().