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Shaping the formation of university-industry research collaborations: what type of proximity does really matter?

D'Este, Pablo; Guy, Frederick; Iammarino, Simona - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2011

Research collaborations between universities and industry (U-I) are considered to be one important channel of potential localised knowledge spillovers. These collaborations favour both intended and unintended flows of knowledge and facilitate learning processes between partners from different...

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Innovation and the geographical and functional dimensions of outsourcing: An empirical investigation based on Italian firm level data

Cusmano, Lucia; Mancasi, Maria Luisa; Morrison, Andrea - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008

The paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing in the Lombardy region and relates them to the probability of introducing product and process innovation. Based on a large firm-level survey, we show that outsourcing processes are strongly regionally embedded and that offshoring is...

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rKnowledge: The Spatial Diffusion of rDNA Methods

Feldman, Maryann; Kogler, Dieter; Rigby, David - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013

The 1980 patent granted to Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer for their development of rDNA technology played a critical … role in the establishment of the modern biotechnology industry. From the birth of this general purpose technology in the … absorption and application of rDNA technology is tracked across metropolitan areas with USPTO patent data. The influence of …

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Innovation in Russia: the territorial dimension

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Jaax, Alexander - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2015

The debate on Russia’s innovation performance has paid little attention to the role of geography. This paper addresses this gap by applying an ‘augmented’ regional knowledge function approach to examine the territorial dynamics of innovation in Russia. The empirical results suggest that...

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Innovation and Regional Growth in Mexico: 2000-2010

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Peralta, Edna MaríaVillarreal - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014

This paper looks at the factors driving regional growth in Mexico, paying special attention to the potentially growth-enhancing role of innovation and innovation policy. The analysis combines innovation variables with indicators linked to the formation of adequate social conditions for...

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Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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Original innovation, learnt innovation and cities: Evidence from UK SMEs

Lee, Neil; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012

One of the key benefits of cities is that they allow the exchange of knowledge and information between economic actors. This may have two effects: it may create the conditions for entirely new innovations to emerge, and it may allow firms to learn innovations from those nearby. Yet few studies...

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How do geographically mobile innovators influence network formation?

Miguélez, Ernest - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012

In this paper, I aim to assess the influence of spatial mobility of knowledge workers on the formation of ties of scientific and industrial collaboration across European regions. Co-location has been traditionally invoked to ease formal collaboration between individuals and firms. Tie formation...

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy

Stam, Erik - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an overview of theory and empirical research on the...

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Do Firms Benefit from Being Present in Multiple Technology Clusters? An Assessment of the Technological Performance of Biopharmaceutical Firms

Lecocq, Catherine; Leten, Bart; Kusters, Jeroen; Looy, … - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2010

&D activities in multiple technology clusters. Regions in the US, Japan and Europe, that host a concentration of biotechnology …-2002) provides evidence for a positive, albeit diminishing (inverted-U shape) relationship between the number of technology clusters …

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