The Anchor Tenant Hypothesis: Exploring the Role of Large, Local, R&D-Intensive Firms in Regional Innovation Systems

By Ajay Agrawal, Ajay Agrawal, Iain M. Cockburn. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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1 Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation (2008, background): “…more than anything else we do not cover that literature here and the work of scholars in that area is omitted (for coverage of this, please see Agrawal & Cockburn, 2003; Almeida & Kogut, 1999; Chung & Alcacer, 2002; Feinberg & Gupta, 2004; Feldman, 1999; Fleming, Mingo, & Chen, 2007;…”
Assessing the Regional Economic Development Impacts of Universities: A Review of Current Approaches (2007, background): “University and industry patents do tend to be colocated within regions, at least within the specific fields of medical imaging, neural networks, and signal processing (Agrawal and Cockburn 2003).”
Roads and Innovation (2017, positive): “2 Agrawal et al. (2014) show that differences in the variables are negligible if they are constructed using only data from the first inventor. Our main explanatory variable is the total number of kilometers of interstate highway in the region in 1983 constructed from the Highway Performance and Moni”
The Economic Development Impacts of Universities on Regions: Do Size and Distance Matter? (2006, background): “University and industry patents do tend to be colocated within regions, at least within certain fields (Agrawal & Cockburn, 2003).”
Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of small firms in the presence of large labs (2014, background): “While we expect these forces to have an impact on MSA innovation (Agrawal and Cockburn, 2003), alone these alternative theories cannot explain the entire set of correlations that we observe in the data.”
The emerging role of university spin-off companies in developing regional entrepreneurial university ecosystems: The case of Andalusia (2019, background): “, 2014), business or innovation ecosystems and knowledge or regional ecosystems (Agrawal and Cockburn, 2003; Graham, 2014).”
Spinning Out New Ventures: A Typology of Incubation Strategies from European Research Institutions (2005, background): “Acs et al. (1992) offers a good summary of environmental factors that influence innovation at the city level, while Agrawal and Cockburn (2003) specifically describe the important role of large ‘anchor tenant’ firms in the environment and the role they play in assisting the local economy (the…”
Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy (2013, background): “We note that our findings are based on the direct investment location choices of MNEs; yet MNE subsidiaries are usually prominent firms within their local economies, and through their local and global linkages these firms often form broader hubs of local value creation (Agrawal & Cockburn, 2003).”
A place-based developmental regional industrial strategy for sustainable capture of co-created value (2018, background): “Anchor tenants are organisations heavily engaged in R&D with the absorptive capacity to apply new knowledge in a particular technological field to generate knowledge externalities within the region in which they are located (Agrawal and Cockburn 2003; Niosi and Zhegu, 2010).”
Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns (2009, background): “For example, Feldman (2003) and Agrawal and Cockburn (2003) link the efficiency of local knowledge spillovers to the presence of large “anchor tenant” firms.”
Agglomeration and Innovation (2014, neutral): “Agrawal and Cockburn (2003) argue that local academic R&D is likely to be more productive, in terms of its contribution to additional patents, in the presence of a large research-intensive firm located nearby—the anchor tenant hypothesis.”
Technological agglomeration and the emergence of clusters and networks in nanotechnology (2007, background): “None of the bigger firms in the three regions are at present active in nanotechnology, so there is little involvement of what might otherwise be anchor tenants (Agrawal and Cockburn, 2003).”