Firm Innovation and Region: The Role of Space in Innovation Processes

Knut Koschatzky ()
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Knut Koschatzky: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Breslauer Strasse 48, D-76139 Karlsruhe, Germany

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 1998, vol. 02, issue 04, 383-408

Abstract: Based on theoretical reflections about the importance of regions in firm innovation, it is the aim of this paper to assess the probability, as well as the degree, that structural (firm internal) and regional characteristics, such as the type of region, agglomeration economies, regional and inter-regional networking, account for the undertaking of product and process innovations. Guided by four core hypotheses incorporating different theoretical arguments, logistic regression models for urban, intermediate and peripheral regions are set up to test the explanatory contribution of firm-related and regional variables in the realisation of innovations in different regional environments. The data used in this paper originate from an industrial innovation survey carried out in several German regions and two French regions. It will be shown that for firms located in the regions under investigation, "space" clearly matters in innovation. However, this takes place more on a perceptive rather than on a politically defined territorial basis.

Keywords: Innovation; firm; region; space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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