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Innovation and Urban Regions as National and International Nodes for the Transfer and Sharing of Knowledge

Simmie, James·2003·Regional Studies

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S IMMIE J. (2003) Innovation and urban regions as national and international nodes for the transfer and sharing of knowledge, Reg. Studies 37 , 607-620. This paper examines the transfer and sharing of knowledge within and between regions in the context of the development of the international economy. It is argued that knowledge is a key resource for innovation which, in turn, is one of the major drivers of economic growth. The firms producing the most novel product innovations in the most significant regional concentrations of innovation are very adept at working across the interface of local and global knowledge transfers. Using data from previous studies combined with the latest regional data from the Community Innovation Survey 3, comparisons are made between the ways in which the most innovative firms in the Greater South East transfer and share knowledge from the local to the international level. The most innovative firms are shown to access international sources of knowledge. This raises questions over the relative importance of local versus international knowledge spillovers for the most innovative firms. Innovative firms tend to concentrate in a minority of key metropolitan regions. These are shown to combine a strong local knowledge capital base with high levels of connectivity to similar regions in the international economy. In this way they are able to combine and decode both codified and tacit knowledge originating from multiple regional, national and international sources. As a result they are able to generate virtuous circles of knowledge, innovation, competitiveness and exports. S IMMIE J. (2003) L'innovation et les zones urbaines en tant que noeuds pour le transfert et le partage de la connaissance, Reg. Studies 37 , 607-620. Cet article cherche à examiner le transfert et le partage de la connaissance intra et interrégionaux dans le cadre du développement de l' économie internationale. On soutient que la connaissance constitue une ressource essentielle de l'innovation, qui représente, à son tour, l'un des moteurs clé de la croissance économique. Les entreprises qui fabriquent les produits les plus innovateurs dans les zones d' innovation régionales les plus importantes sont très expert en l' art de travailler avec l'interface des transferts de la connaissance locale et globale. A partir des données provenant des études anté rieures, combinées avec les dernières données régionales provenant de la Community Information Survey 3 (la troisième enquête menée sur l'innovation dans communauté), on fait des comparaisons des façons dont les entreprises les plus innovatrices situé es dans le Grand Sud-Est transfèrent et partagent la connaissance du niveau local jusqu'à l'échelon international. On démontre que les entreprises les plus innovatrices ont accès aux sources de connaissance internationales. Cela remet en question l'importance relative des retombées de connaissance locales ou internationales pour ce qui est des entreprises les plus innovatrices. Les entreprises innovatrices ont tendance à s'agglomérer dans une poignée de régions mé tropolitaines clé. On démontre que celles-là combinent une base de connaissance locale solide et des taux de connexité élevés avec des régions similaires dans l'économie internationale. De cette façon, elles se trouvent en mesure de combiner et de dé coder la connaissance à la fois codifiée et implicite qui provient de multiples sources régionales, nationales et internationales. Par consé quent, ils peuvent créer des cercles vertueux de connaissance, de compétitivité et d'exportations. S IMMIE J. (2003) Innovation und Stadtregionen als überregionale und internationale Knotenpunkte der Weitergabe und gemeinsamer Nutzung von Kenntnissen, Reg. Studies 37 , 607-620. Diese Aufsatz untersucht die Weitergabe und gemeinsame Nutzung von Kenntnissen innerhalb und von einer Region zur andern im Zusammenhang mit der Entwicklung der internationalen Wirtschaft. Es wird festgestellt, daß Kenntnisse der Schlüssel zur Innovation sind, die wiederum eine der Hauptantriebskräfte wirtschaftlichen Wachstums darstellt. Firmen, die die neuesten Produktinnovationen in den bedeutendsten regionalen Konzentrationen von Innovation herausbringen, sind sehr geschickt in der Ausnutzung von Berührungspunkten örtlicher und globaler Weitergabe von Kenntnissen. Gestüzt auf Angaben früherer Studien in Verbindung mit Regionaldaten jüngsten Datums des Community Innovation Survey 3 werden Vergleiche zwischen den Arten angestellt, in denen die innovativ rührigsten Firmen des Großgebietes Südostengland Kenntnisse von der örtlichen bis zur internationalen Ebene gemeinsam nutzen und einander weitergeben. Es wird gezeigt, wie die innovativ aktivsten Firmen sich Zugang zu internationalen Wissensquellen verschaffen. Daraus ergeben sich fü r die Innovation führenden Firmer Fragen der relativen Bedeutung von ö rtlicher, im Vergleich zu interrnationaler Verbreitung von Kenntnissen. Innovative Firmen konzentrieren

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Authors
Simmie, J.
Venue
Regional Studies
Published
2003-08
Volume
37
Issue
6-7
Pages
607-620
ISSN
  • 0034-3404 (ISSN-L)
  • 1360-0591
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