Innovation, heterogeneous firms and the region: evidence from Spain
研究了区域因素如何影响企业创新绩效，发现区域环境通过调节企业吸收能力等内部因素间接起作用，且这种效应仅存在于中小企业，对产品创新和过程创新的影响模式不同。
Innovation, heterogeneous firms and the region: evidence from Spain. Regional Studies. This paper investigates the role of regional factors in innovation performance, controlling for firms’ absorptive capacity and other sources of firm heterogeneity. The findings for a sample of firms in Spain support the hypothesis that regional determinants matter, though their role is subtler than is frequently assumed. Rather than exerting a direct influence on firms’ innovation, the regional context moderates the effect of internal determinants, particularly of the firms’ absorptive capacity. The results indicate that the type of relevant interactions differs for product and process innovation and that they only operate for small and medium-sized enterprises, being negligible for large firms.