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Sources of Increasing Returns and Regional Innovation in the UK

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Suma Athreye ()
David Keeble ()

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This empirical paper investigates the impact of different sources of increasing returns on firm innovative behaviour in different regions of the UK. Of the different sources of increasing returns, the impact of intermediation and the emergence of specialised markets on the probability of innovation is of particular interest to this analysis. The existing literature on regional development in the UK strongly suggests that the South East has many features that may characterise an economy growing with a greater division of labour. These are less evident in the Industrial Heartland region of northern England. Other influences on innovation such as the impact of regional public R&D and dynamic economies to scale due to learning within a firm are also considered.

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Paper provided by The Open University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics in its series Open Discussion Papers in Economics with number 30.

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Length: 29 pages
Date of creation: Jan 2001
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Keywords: Increasing returns and growth specialised markets public R&D product innovation by firms regional innovation regional development

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R0 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General
R3 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Production Analysis and Firm Location
O3 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change
H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
L8 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services

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  7. Dosi, Giovanni, 1988. "Sources, Procedures, and Microeconomic Effects of Innovation," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 26(3), pages 1120-71, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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