Relatedness, external linkages and regional innovation in Europe
Relatedness, external linkages and regional innovation in Europe. Regional Studies. This paper analyses if the generation of new knowledge benefits from the combination of similar or dissimilar pieces of existing technologies, in terms of their technological content (related versus unrelated variety), for the case of European regions. Specifically, it analyses the relevance of variety in the case of local knowledge as well as in the case of the knowledge coming from other regions. At the local level, it shows that while related variety is conducive to regional innovation, unrelated variety does play a role, too, when it comes to radical innovations. Conversely, it also shows that external knowledge flows have a higher impact, the higher the similarity between these flows and the extant local knowledge base.
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The authors acknowledge the financial support from the project ‘Redes de colaboración tecnológica e innovación. Determinantes y efectos sobre la competitividad de las empresas españolas’ funded by the Fundación BBVA Ayudas a Proyectos de Investigación 2014. Ernest Miguelez acknowledges financial support from the Regional Council of Aquitaine (Chaire d’Accueil en Economie de l’Innovation, to Francesco Lissoni). Rosina Moreno acknowledges financial support provided by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad for the project entitled ‘Innovation and Territory. Technological Collaboration, International Competitiveness and Location Factors’ [grant number ECO2014-59493-R], as well as to the Program ICREA Acadèmia. However, any mistakes or omissions remain the authors’ alone.
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