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Firm Innovation and Co‐Location in Portugal
Author(s) -
Faria Ana Paula,
Barbosa Natália,
Eiriz Vasco
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/grow.12106
Subject(s) - economic geography , product innovation , unit (ring theory) , persistence (discontinuity) , product (mathematics) , distribution (mathematics) , innovation process , positive correlation , geography , econometrics , business , industrial organization , regional science , economics , marketing , mathematics , work in process , engineering , medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics education , geotechnical engineering , geometry
This paper investigates the geographical distribution and concentration of firms’ innovation persistence and innovation type (product and process) based on three waves of the P ortuguese C ommunity I nnovation S urvey data covering the period 1998–2006. The main findings are: 1) both innovation persistence and innovation type are asymmetrically distributed across P ortuguese regions, 2) the degree of correlation between geographical location and innovative output varies with the innovation type, and 3) the correlation between geographical unit and innovation increases when the spatial unit of analysis is narrower. The results suggest that the firms’ choices of geographical location have a long‐lasting effect, engendering no equal probabilities of being persistently innovative.