Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174626 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
56th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Cities & Regions: Smart, Sustainable, Inclusive?", 23-26 August 2016, Vienna, Austria
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 and 2012. On the one hand, we distinguish between four types of innovations: process, product, marketing, and organizational innovations. On the other hand, we considered various regional characteristics including knowledge stock, market thickness, and extent of knowledge spillovers. Using a dynamic Probit model, we found that, in general, those firms located in the regions with higher stock of knowledge, thicker market, and higher extent of knowledge spillovers exhibit higher probability of being a persistent innovators. Such higher persistency is mostly pronounced for product innovators.
Subjects: 
location
persistence
innovation
product innovations
process innovations
market innovations
organizational innovations
firms
Community Inno¬vation Survey
JEL: 
D22
L20
O31
O32
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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