Firms’ innovation across regions: an exploratory study

Ana Faria, Natália Barbosa () and Vasco Eiriz ()
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Vasco Eiriz: Universidade do Minho - Departamento de Gestão, http://www.eeg.uminho.pt

No 12/2013, NIPE Working Papers from NIPE - Universidade do Minho

Abstract: This paper investigates the geographical distribution and concentration of firms’ innovation persistence and innovation type - product and process - based upon three waves of the Community Innovation Survey data covering the period 1998-2006. The main findings are: (i) both innovation persistence and innovation type are asymmetrically distributed across Portuguese regions; (ii) the degree of correlation between geographical location and innovative output varies with the innovation type; and (iii); the correlation between geographical unit and innovation increases when the spatial unit of analysis is narrower. Overall, results indicate that firm’s choice of geographical location have a long-lasting effect, engendering no equal probabilities of being persistently innovator.

Keywords: product innovation; process innovation; persistence; location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L25 O31 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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