Firm Performance in the Periphery: On the Relation between Firm-Internal Knowledge and Local Knowledge Spillovers
(2015) In Papers in Innovation Studies 2015(40).- Abstract
- This paper challenges one of the fundamental propositions within economic geography; that location in knowledge regions contributes to firm performance in general and especially for knowledge intensive firms that compete on the basis of knowledge. Our analysis of Swedish micro-data on 32,535 firms from 2004-2011 provides evidence that knowledge intensive firms benefit less from local knowledge spillovers than firms with comparably low in-house knowledge. This suggests that firms with high internal competencies can compensate for a lack of local knowledge spillovers and that negative knowledge externalities may make location outside knowledge centers more beneficial for such firms.
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- author
- Grillitsch, Markus LU and Nilsson, Magnus LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Working paper/Preprint
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- knowledge spillovers, periphery, center, agglomeration, innovation, externalities
- in
- Papers in Innovation Studies
- volume
- 2015
- issue
- 40
- pages
- 39 pages
- publisher
- CIRCLE, Lund University
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 2482a97b-6d24-4245-b92f-3c03fb047ed7 (old id 8253990)
- alternative location
- http://wp.circle.lu.se/upload/CIRCLE/workingpapers/201540_Grillitsch_Nilsson.pdf
- http://swopec.hhs.se/lucirc/abs/lucirc2015_040.htm
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- 2016-04-04 09:56:45
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