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dc.contributor.author | Cantner, Uwe | en |
dc.contributor.author | Conti, Elisa | en |
dc.contributor.author | Meder, Andreas | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-21 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-14T11:13:49Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-05-14T11:13:49Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31734 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The claim of a positive association between a firm’s social assets and its inno-vative capacity is a widely debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany, increasingly di-rected to cluster formation. In the light of the growing attention and financial efforts that cluster-based innovation policies are receiving, it is worth answering two main ques-tions. First, are firms with a relatively high level of social capital likely to be more in-novative? Second, do companies pursuing innovation in partnership innovate more? This paper empirically answers these questions by exploring a cross-sectoral sample of 248 firms based in the Jena region. On the one hand, the extent to which a firm is inte-grated in its community life does not contribute to an explanation of its innovative per-formance. On the other hand, directed cooperation with the specific goal of innovating shows a positive impact on innovative performance. However, the correlation between the extent of the network of co-innovators and firms’ innovative capacity presents an inverted U-shaped relation: there is a threshold in the number of co-innovators justified by the costs of innovating by interacting. A policy lesson can be drawn from these find-ings: cluster-based policies are to be treated with caution as firms face costs of network-ing and not merely benefits. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aFriedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics |cJena | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aJena Economic Research Papers |x2009,040 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O33 | en |
dc.subject.jel | L14 | en |
dc.subject.jel | R5 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | innovation | en |
dc.subject.keyword | social capital | en |
dc.subject.keyword | innovation network | en |
dc.subject.keyword | innovation cooperation | en |
dc.subject.keyword | clus-ter-based policy | en |
dc.subject.stw | Innovation | en |
dc.subject.stw | Forschungskooperation | en |
dc.subject.stw | Business Network | en |
dc.subject.stw | Social Capital | en |
dc.subject.stw | Soziales Netzwerk | en |
dc.subject.stw | Regionale Konzentration | en |
dc.subject.stw | Jena (Region) | en |
dc.title | Networks and innovation: the role of social assets in explaining firms' innovative capacity | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 605059209 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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