Micro-Evidence on the Determinants of Innovation in The Netherlands: The Relative Importance of Absorptive Capacity and Agglomeration Externalities

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This paper employs firm-level data to analyze the relative importance of firm characteristics and agglomeration externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm-level characteristics as well as externalities, using information on the regional production structure to test for Marshall-Arrow-Romer, Porter and Jacobs effects. Our results show that most firm-specific variables are highly statistically significant, whereas agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 10-060/3

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
• Thema: innovation ; absorptive capacity ; agglomeration externalities ; Community Innovation Survey ; micro-data ; firm behavior ; Innovation ; Absorption ; Agglomerationseffekt ; Niederlande

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Smit, Martijn J. ; Abreu, Maria A. ; de Groot, Henri L.F.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Tinbergen Institute
• (wo): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/87056
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ