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Border blocking effects in collaborative firm innovation

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  • Jos van den Broek
  • Paul Benneworth
  • Roel Rutten

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Border regions are not often associated with innovation and economic prosperity. And even when they are prosperous, cross-border interaction is still mostly limited. The opening up of borders in Europe has presented new opportunities for firms located in these border regions to co-operate for innovation and knowledge to flow across borders. Despite the reduction of the importance of borders, firms seeking to access cross-border knowledge resources need still to ‘cross’ the border and address the various effects it brings. This paper therefore asks the question of how the presence of a border affects the processes by which firms attempt to build up productive co-operations for innovation. We use a heuristic of collaborative innovation across borders as building up through four sequential cooperation stages, and each of these different stages is susceptible to different kinds of border effects. Using a case study of firms co-operating across the Dutch-Flemish border, we empirically explore these border crossing processes in order to shed further light on how border processes play out.

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  • Jos van den Broek & Paul Benneworth & Roel Rutten, 2018. "Border blocking effects in collaborative firm innovation," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(7), pages 1330-1346, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:26:y:2018:i:7:p:1330-1346
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1476470
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    1. Sabine Neuberger & Helmut W Saatkamp & Alfons G J M Oude Lansink & Dietrich Darr, 2021. "Can differences in innovativeness between European cross-border regions be explained by factors impeding cross-border business interaction?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(11), pages 1-16, November.
    2. Ricard Esparza-Masana, 2022. "Towards Smart Specialisation 2.0. Main Challenges When Updating Strategies," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 13(1), pages 635-655, March.
    3. Weidenfeld, Adi & Makkonen, Teemu & Clifton, Nick, 2021. "From interregional knowledge networks to systems," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    4. Wang, Jue & Chandra, Kevin & Du, Coco & Ding, Weizhen & Wu, Xun, 2021. "Assessing the Potential of Cross-border regional innovation Systems:A case study of the Hong Kong -Shenzhen region," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).

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