The role of geographical proximity in the international knowledge flows of European firms: an overview of different knowledge transfer mechanisms

Cristina Chaminade and Monica Plechero ()

No 2015/30, Papers in Innovation Studies from Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

Abstract: The paper provides an overview of the international knowledge flows in Europe particularly looking at the drivers and consequences of such flows as well as the general trend. It distinguishes between different types of mechanisms for the acquisition and transfer of knowledge from trade to research and technological collaboration, mobility of human capital and FDI. The paper is empirical in nature and targeted to a wider audience. The analysis reveals that proximity matters significantly for the mobility of human capital as well as for the establishment of collaborative networks. In both cases, intra-Europe knowledge flows are more important that extra-Europe knowledge flows, thus pointing to the role of the European market facilitating these forms of exchange. The patterns of offshoring of R&D as well as trade networks are rather different- more global than intra-European. In other words, trade and investment networks are more dispersed globally than mobility of human capital and research and technological networks.

Keywords: Exports of high tech products; international research collaboration; international mobility of researchers; offshoring of R&D; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F20 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2015-09-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-int, nep-knm, nep-net and nep-sbm
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