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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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  • Suma Athreye & David Keeble, 2001. "Sources of Increasing Returns and Regional Innovation in the UK," Open Discussion Papers in Economics 30, The Open University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:opn:wpaper:30
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    1. Dimitratos, Pavlos & Liouka, Ioanna & Young, Stephen, 2009. "Regional location of multinational corporation subsidiaries and economic development contribution: Evidence from the UK," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 44(2), pages 180-191, April.
    2. Subrata Ghatak & Rob Watkins, 2001. "Small and medium size enterprises: innovation and growth in the UK and Poland," Economics Discussion Papers 2001-3, School of Economics, Kingston University London.
    3. Burhan Can Karahasan, 2023. "Spatial distribution of new firms and firm‐level innovation: Evidence from Turkey," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(9), pages 2156-2181, December.

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    JEL classification:

    • R0 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General
    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location
    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
    • L8 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services

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