Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87056 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 10-060/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper employs firm-level data to analyze the relative importance of firm characteristics and agglomeration externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm-level characteristics as well as externalities, using information on the regional production structure to test for Marshall-Arrow-Romer, Porter and Jacobs effects. Our results show that most firm-specific variables are highly statistically significant, whereas agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation.
Subjects: 
innovation
absorptive capacity
agglomeration externalities
Community Innovation Survey
micro-data
firm behavior
JEL: 
L20
O30
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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