RT Journal Article
T1 The effect of regional resources on innovation: a firm-centered approach
A1 Rodríguez-Gulías, María Jesús
A1 Rodeiro-Pazos, David
A1 Nogueira Moreiras, Manuel Ángel
A1 Fernández López, Sara
K1 External resources
K1 Regional resources
K1 Product innovation
K1 Process innovation
K1 Multilevel
K1 Absorptive capacity
K1 Interaction efects
AB The current environment of high competitiveness has made innovative frms, especiallyjob-creating ones, central to regional economic growth. Most of previous studies havenot considered the interactions between internal and regional factors, and has focused onproduct innovation performance. This paper aims to fll both gaps in the literature on theregional determinants of frm innovation. Assuming a frm-centered approach, the maingoal of the paper is to analyse whether the regional resources determine frm innovationeither in a direct way or by shaping the efect of the frm’s internal resources. We used multilevel modelling and panel data methodology in a sample of 2141 Spanish manufacturingfrms over the period 2008–2014. More specifcally, we assume fxed slopes and estimate athree-level logistic random intercept models (observations: level 1; frms: level 2; regions:level 3). Our results show that the internal factors are the cornerstone of frm innovation.Nevertheless, there is also a ‘regional efect’ in the frms’ propensity to innovate. Particularly, the efect of the region’s resources in explaining the diferences across frms in product innovation is more substantive than in process innovation. In this last case, regionalfactors play a subtler role by shaping the efect of its internal drivers. Policy-makers shouldbe conscious of the need of keeping a bottom–up approach (or a frm-centered approach)when designing regional innovation policies. In this respect, policies aimed at promotingthe size, export activities and R&D intensity of frms could be efective to increase thenumber of frms that can beneft from the exploitation of the region’s resources.
PB Springer
SN 0892-9912
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34548
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34548
LA eng
NO Rodríguez-Gulías, M. J., Rodeiro-Pazos, D., Fernández-López, S., & Nogueira-Moreiras, M. Á. (2021). The effect of regional resources on innovation: a firm-centered approach. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 46(3), 760-791.
NO This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10961-020-09811-8
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RD 1 may 2026