The Bright and Dark Side of Cooperation for Regional Innovation Performance

Tom Broekel () and Andreas Meder ()

No 08-12, DRUID Working Papers from DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies

Abstract: Studies analyzing the importance of intra- and inter-regional cooperation for regional innovation performance are mainly of qualitative nature and focus strongly on the positive effects that high levels of cooperation can yield. For the case of the German labor market regions and the Electrics & Electronics industry the paper provides a quantitative-empirical analysis taking into account the possibility of negative effects related to regional lock-in, lock-out, and cooperation overload situations. Using conditional nonparametric frontier techniques and cooperation behavior measures we find positive as well as substantial negative effects of cooperation with the latter being induced by excessive and unbalanced cooperation behavior.

Keywords: Regional innovation performance; cooperation; lock-out; lock-in; cooperation overload (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 O31 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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