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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Cantner, Uwe | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Conti, Elisa | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Meder, Andreas | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-07-21 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-05-14T11:13:49Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2010-05-14T11:13:49Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2009 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31734 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | The claim of a positive association between a firm’s social assets and its inno-vative capacity is a widely debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany, increasingly di-rected to cluster formation. In the light of the growing attention and financial efforts that cluster-based innovation policies are receiving, it is worth answering two main ques-tions. First, are firms with a relatively high level of social capital likely to be more in-novative? Second, do companies pursuing innovation in partnership innovate more? This paper empirically answers these questions by exploring a cross-sectoral sample of 248 firms based in the Jena region. On the one hand, the extent to which a firm is inte-grated in its community life does not contribute to an explanation of its innovative per-formance. On the other hand, directed cooperation with the specific goal of innovating shows a positive impact on innovative performance. However, the correlation between the extent of the network of co-innovators and firms’ innovative capacity presents an inverted U-shaped relation: there is a threshold in the number of co-innovators justified by the costs of innovating by interacting. A policy lesson can be drawn from these find-ings: cluster-based policies are to be treated with caution as firms face costs of network-ing and not merely benefits. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | Universität Jena und Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik Jena | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Jena economic research papers 2009,040 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O33 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | L14 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | R5 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | innovation | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | social capital | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | innovation network | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | innovation cooperation | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | clus-ter-based policy | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Innovation | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Forschungskooperation | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Business Network | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Social Capital | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Soziales Netzwerk | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Regionale Konzentration | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Jena (Region) | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Networks and innovation: the role of social assets in explaining firms' innovative capacity | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 605059209 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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