The roles of KIBS and R&D in the industrial diversification of regions

Jeroen Content; Nicola Cortinovis; Koen Frenken; Jacob Jordaan

doi:10.1007/s00168-021-01068-9

The roles of KIBS and R&D in the industrial diversification of regions

Jeroen Content^*
, Nicola Cortinovis
, Koen Frenken
, Jacob Jordaan

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

There is a growing recognition of the importance of the creation of new industrial specialisations for sustained regional growth. However, path dependency often limits a region’s ability to do so, as the occurrence of new industrial specialisations is conditioned by its existing industrial base. In this paper, we use data for 269 NUTS-2 EU regions to examine whether regional Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and Research and Development (R&D) enhance the capacity of regions to specialise in new industries, against the forces of path dependence. Our findings show that both KIBS and R&D exercise direct positive effects on the creation of new industry specialisations and that professional-KIBS and public R&D impact negatively on the relatedness of new specialisations, while private R&D does so positively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	29-64
Number of pages	36
Journal	Annals of Regional Science
Volume	68
Issue number	1
Early online date	27 Jun 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-021-01068-9
Publication status	Published - Feb 2022

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Funding Information:
This work has been supported by the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, the European Commission, under the H2020 FIRES-project ( http://www.projectfires.eu/ ). We thank the participants of the RSA conference in Dublin (2017), the ERSA conference in Groningen (2017), and the workshop on radical innovation in Bremen (2018) for their helpful comments. We would also like to thank the editor and the referees for their helpful comments during the reviewing process.

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This work has been supported by the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, the European Commission, under the H2020 FIRES-project ( http://www.projectfires.eu/ ). We thank the participants of the RSA conference in Dublin (2017), the ERSA conference in Groningen (2017), and the workshop on radical innovation in Bremen (2018) for their helpful comments. We would also like to thank the editor and the referees for their helpful comments during the reviewing process.

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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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