Catherine Beaudry
et Stefano Breschi
Article de revue (2003)
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Abstract
This paper examines empirically whether firms located in strong industrial clusters are more innovative than firms located outside these regions. The study performs a firmlevel analysis for two countries: Italy and the United Kingdom. European patent data for the period 1990-98 are used as indicator of firms' innovative activity, and are related to employment in the region where the firms are located, and other cluster-specific and firm-specific variables. The main result of the paper is that clustering alone is not conducive to higher innovative performance. Whereas location in a cluster densely populated by other innovative firms positively affects the likelihood of innovating, quite strong disadvantages seems to arise from the presence of non-innovative firms in a firm's own industrial sector. Regarding the impact of other industrial sectors, preliminary results seem to indicate, in the case of Italy, that a strong presence of firms in other related industries spurs innovative performance.
Mots clés
Clusters, Innovation, Knowledge, Agglomeration economies
| Sujet(s): | 1600 Génie industriel > 1600 Génie industriel |
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| Département: | Département de mathématiques et de génie industriel |
| Organismes subventionnaires: | European Community |
| Numéro de subvention: | SOE1–CT97–1058 (DG12–SOLS) |
| URL de PolyPublie: | https://publications.polymtl.ca/2250/ |
| Titre de la revue: | Economics of Innovation and New Technology (vol. 12, no 4) |
| Maison d'édition: | Taylor & Francis |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10438590290020197 |
| URL officielle: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10438590290020197 |
| Date du dépôt: | 28 sept. 2016 14:44 |
| Dernière modification: | 27 sept. 2024 10:58 |
| Citer en APA 7: | Beaudry, C., & Breschi, S. (2003). Are firms in clusters really more innovative? Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 12(4), 325-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/10438590290020197 |
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