Firm Capabilities and Cooperation for Innovation: Evidence from the UK Regions

Simona Iammarino, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli () and Nick Tunzelmann ()
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Nick Tunzelmann: University of Sussex

A chapter in Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance, 2013, pp 281-302 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter focuses on the relationship between firms’ technological competencies and capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship between cooperative linkages for innovation and firms’ technological status. Firstly, the distinction between competencies and capabilities adopted in this chapter seems appropriate for going beyond the rather simplistic dichotomy of ‘innovative’ versus ‘non-innovative’ firms commonly used in interpreting CIS data. Secondly, we find that the analysis for the UK as a whole masks stark regional differences in terms of intra- and extra-region collaborative linkages and firms’ technological status.

Keywords: Cooperation for innovation; Firms’ technological competencies and capabilities; UK regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33395-8_14

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