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The regional dimension of knowledge transfers: a behavioral approach

Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who search for knowledge. It is shown that a regional dimension exists in these processes that results from a regional bias in an actor's search activities. Social embeddedness, a shared regional identity and limited spatial mobility foster this bias. We argue that insights from research on these topics can help to define the geographic size of a region.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Papers on Economics and Evolution ; No. 0612

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Current Heterodox Approaches: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
Thema
Regional Economics
Innovation
Knowledge Transfers
Tacit Knowledge
Bounded Rationality
Wissenstransfer
Regionalökonomik
Raumwirtschaftstheorie
Beschränkte Rationalität

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Broekel, Tom
Binder, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Max Planck Institute of Economics
(wo)
Jena
(wann)
2006

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Broekel, Tom
  • Binder, Martin
  • Max Planck Institute of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2006

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