Relatedness, external linkages and regional innovation in Europe

By E. Miguelez, Rosina Moreno. 2018

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ABSTRACT Relatedness, external linkages and regional innovation in Europe. Regional Studies. This paper analyses if the generation of new knowledge benefits from the combination of similar or dissimilar pieces of existing technologies, in terms of their technological content (related versus unrelated variety), for the case of European regions. Specifically, it analyses the relevance of variety in the case of local knowledge as well as in the case of the knowledge coming from other regions. At the local level, it shows that while related variety is conducive to regional innovation, unrelated variety does play a role, too, when it comes to radical innovations. Conversely, it also shows that external knowledge flows have a higher impact, the higher the similarity between these flows and the extant local knowledge base.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Smart specialization policy in the European Union: relatedness, knowledge complexity and regional diversification (2019, background): “…Sörvik, Midtkandal, Marzocchi, & Uyarra, 2016; Thissen, van Oort, Diodato, & Ruijs, 2013) to account for non-local linkages to avoid regional lock-in (Bathelt et al., 2004), as these give regions access to complementary capabilities elsewhere (Miguelez & Moreno, 2017; Tavassoli & Carbonara, 2014).”
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks (2020, background): “These studies are also neither grounded in the core EEG conceptual framework nor in its key concept of related variety in regional growth, such as Boschma and Iammarino (2009) and Miguelez and Moreno (2018).”
Global networks, local specialisation and regional patterns of innovation (2020, background): “Are external networks a valuable source of knowledge able to enhance local innovation? Can external networks substitute or complement internal sources of innovation? Are all local systems able to capture and re-use external knowledge to improve their innovation capacity? Existing empirical evidence ”
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions (2020, background): “Miguelez and Moreno (2018) examined the effect of extra-regional linkages on the type of innovations in regions.”