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来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.26,Issue2SI,P.396-420

语言

英文

关键字

Labour mobility; evolutionary economic geography; innovation; Norway; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; OPTIMAL COGNITIVE DISTANCE; LABOR MOBILITY; ABSORPTIVE-CAPACITY; TECHNOLOGICAL REGIMES; PRODUCT INNOVATION; SCHUMPETERIAN PATTE

作者单位

[Herstad, Sverre J.] Inland Norway Univ Appl Sci, N-2418 Elverum, Norway. [Herstad, Sverre J.] NIFU Nord Inst Studies Innovat Res & Educ, N-0608 Oslo, Norway. Herstad, SJ (reprint author), Inland Norway Univ Appl Sci, N-2418 Elverum, Norway.; Herstad, SJ (reprint author), NIFU Nord Inst Studies Innovat Res & Educ, N-0608 Oslo, Norway. E-Mail: sverre.herstad@inn.no

摘要

Building on recent evolutionary thinking, this paper focuses on inter-industry differences in the receptiveness of firms to inflows of skills from different domains of the external economy. The empirical analysis of innovation performance finds that firms' dependences on recruiting outside their own industry domains were inversely related to the vibrancy of knowledge dynamics within them. Moreover, inflow distances that are optimal' from the perspective of learning are closer to manufacturing firms' own industry domains, than they are to the domains of services firms. As a result, only low-tech manufacturing and technology-intensive services firms exhibit the receptiveness to inflows from related' industries found in prior evolutionary research. Firms in high-tech manufacturing, by contrast, capture strong learning benefits from intra-sectoral mobility flows, whereas firms in traditional professional services depend on skills developed outside their own industry domains. Implications for the theory, empirics and policy relevance of evolutionary economic geography are discussed.