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The impact of KIBS’ location on their innovation behaviour

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  • Stephan Brunow
  • Andrea Hammer
  • Philip McCann

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Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress and innovation. They generally depend on knowledge exchanges and, therefore, geographical proximity to markets, customers and suppliers would be expected to be a critical factor in their performance. This paper investigates how the innovation performance of German KIBS firms is related to their distance and size from the nearest city. The analysis largely conforms to a textbook type of spatial urban hierarchy and, indeed, finds that there are very strong distance-decay and city size effects, and these also vary according to the innovation type.

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  • Stephan Brunow & Andrea Hammer & Philip McCann, 2020. "The impact of KIBS’ location on their innovation behaviour," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(9), pages 1289-1303, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:54:y:2020:i:9:p:1289-1303
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1684463
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    1. Steven Bond-Smith & Philip McCann, 2022. "The work-from-home revolution and the performance of cities," Working Papers 2022-6, University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
    2. Nobuo Kobayashi & Takeshi Mori, 2022. "An Empirical Study on the Relationship of Regional Entrepreneurial Activities and Utilization of Digital Technology in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS)," Discussion Paper Series 234, School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University.

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