Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level
基于约1400家瑞士企业的数据，研究区域知识对企业循环经济创新的影响，发现企业主要从高质量的区域知识中学习，地理距离和知识质量是关键因素。
Abstract This paper investigates whether, and what kind of, regional knowledge has a stimulating effect on circular economy (CE) innovation by companies. We thus add to the literature on regional knowledge spillovers, which has rarely focussed explicitly on the CE. For the empirical study, we create econometric regressions based on a representative dataset with extensive information on the CE activities of about 1400 Swiss firms. The results confirm that regional knowledge is important for the implementation of CE innovations. However, geographical distance and the quality of the knowledge must be taken into account, that is, companies primarily learn from the best.