Universitat de Barcelona
2020-06-07T20:17:44Z
2022-09-30T05:10:22Z
2019-09
2020-06-07T20:17:44Z
Much has been said about the role that technological networking activities play on the innovative performance of firms, but little is known about how the regional context influences the efficiency of such networking activities. In this paper we hypothesize that the transformation of firms' networking activities into innovation may vary depending on the regional environment in which the firm is located. For Spanish manufactures in the period 2000-12 and through the use of a multilevel framework, we obtain that after controlling for the firm's characteristics, the regional context has not only a direct effect on firms' innovation performance, but it also conditions the returns to firms' networking activities, although differently in the case of cooperation and outsourcing. Cooperating in innovation activities is more beneficial for those firms located in a knowledge intensive region, whereas R&D outsourcing seems to be more profitable for firms in regions with a low knowledge pool.
Article
Accepted version
English
Gestió de la innovació; Economia de la informació; Externalitats (Economia); Gestió de la tecnologia; Innovation management; Knowledge economy; Externalities (Economics); Technology management
Elsevier
Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.04.006
Research Policy, 2019, vol. 48, num. 7, p. 1798-1808
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.04.006
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