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作者

Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver;Francisca Sempere-Ripoll;Sofia Estelles-Miguel;Ronald Rojas-Alvarado

来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.,Issue.

语言

英文

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作者单位

ESIC Business & Marketing School Madrid, Spain; Management Department, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain; Universidad de la Costa, Barranquilla, Colombia;Management Department, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain;Management Department, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain;Gestión Organizacional, Univesidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia; UNAD, Escuela de Ciencias básicas, tecnología e ingeniería, Colombia

摘要

This study’s objective consists of deciphering whether collocation in MIDs, exerts a potential effect on a firm’s discontinuous or radical innovative performance. The study explores and integrates economic geography with innovation literature in order to explore the relationship between Marshalllian Industrial Districts (MIDs) and firm innovation. Specifically, we encompass radical or discontinuous innovation, as opposed to an incremental or imitative one. We build a framework from which MIDs’ effect on discontinuous innovation is approached. Using CIS data in Spain in district and non-district firms in a region, our results show that: (i) collocated firms’ innovative performance is positively related to the District effect, as long as the innovation pursuit is incremental; (ii) collocation in MIDs does not facilitate the pursuit of radical innovation but mainly supports an incremental one, and (iii) district firms show asymmetric capabilities and innovative output, as long as the innovation pursuit is incremental, nor discontinuous. Implications for the MID framework are discussed.