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来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.26,Issue7,P.1330-1346

语言

英文

关键字

Borders; Dutch-Flemish border region; case study; innovation; collaboration; firms; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; SYSTEMS; REGIONS; GEOGRAPHY; FLOWS; EU

作者单位

[van den Broek, Jos] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands. [van den Broek, Jos] Rathenau Inst, POB 95366, NL-2509 CJ The Hague, Netherlands. [Benneworth, Paul] Univ Twente, CHEPS, Enschede, Netherlands. [Benneworth, Paul] Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway. [Rutten, Roel] Tilburg Univ, Tilburg, Netherlands. van den Broek, J (reprint author), Rathenau Inst, POB 95366, NL-2509 CJ The Hague, Netherlands. E-Mail: j.vandenbroek@rathenau.nl

摘要

Border regions are not often associated with innovation and economic prosperity. And even when they are prosperous, cross-border interaction is still mostly limited. The opening up of borders in Europe has presented new opportunities for firms located in these border regions to co-operate for innovation and knowledge to flow across borders. Despite the reduction of the importance of borders, firms seeking to access cross-border knowledge resources need still to cross' the border and address the various effects it brings. This paper therefore asks the question of how the presence of a border affects the processes by which firms attempt to build up productive co-operations for innovation. We use a heuristic of collaborative innovation across borders as building up through four sequential cooperation stages, and each of these different stages is susceptible to different kinds of border effects. Using a case study of firms co-operating across the Dutch-Flemish border, we empirically explore these border crossing processes in order to shed further light on how border processes play out.