ABSTRACTcBW中山大学中国第三产业研究中心

cBW中山大学中国第三产业研究中心
             This paper empirically examines how systematic differences in firm productivity can be explained by a firm’s cumulated internal knowledge and access to external knowledge in its environment. To capture this conjunction of internal and external knowledge we use information about 6,000 Swedish firms in 290 municipalities and 72 functional regions and we use detailed information about individual firms’ accessibility to knowledge-intensive producer services. Intra-firm knowledge accumulation is related to the long-run persistency of R&D and innovation engagement as reflected by 74 000 patent applications made by firms. As an anlternative, long-run persistency is examined by means of R&D information from three consecutive Community Innovation Surveys. Regression results, based on panel data for the period 1997-2008, suggest that only firms which commit themselves to accumulation of internal knowledge benefit from being located in places with a large mass of external knowledge. We also find strong evidence that innovators are more productive than other firms across all locations. cBW中山大学中国第三产业研究中心

Keywords: Innovation, Spillovers, Accessibility, Productivity, Patent, Community Innovation SurveycBW中山大学中国第三产业研究中心

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Börje Johansson Hans Lööf Pardis Nabavi_2012:How can firm benefit from access to knowledge-intensive producer services?

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