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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms: a regional investigation

This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the distinction between competences and capabilities adopted in this paper seems appropriate for going beyond the rather simplistic dichotomy of 'innovative' versus 'non-innovative' firms commonly used in interpreting CIS data. Secondly, we find that the analysis for the UK as a whole masks stark regional differences in terms of intra- and extra-region collaborative linkages and degrees of firms' technological capabilities. These findings may be useful to help policy making to meet the priorities highlighted within the UK Government's framework for Science & Technology.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4129

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Thema
Cooperation for innovation
technological capabilities
firms
regions
Innovation
Unternehmenskooperation
Forschungskooperation
Technologie
Kernkompetenz
Region
Großbritannien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Iammarino, Simona
Piva, Mariacristina
Vivarelli, Marco
von Tunzelmann, Nick
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2009

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090513272
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Iammarino, Simona
  • Piva, Mariacristina
  • Vivarelli, Marco
  • von Tunzelmann, Nick
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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