DEMAND PULLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ERANDE: SOME EVIDENCE FROM CIS 3
Although it has been shown that knowledge capital is highly concentrated in a minority of European regions, it is highly unlikely that all the knowledge required for innovation can be found within a single region. The UK, for example, conducts some 5% of world R&D. Thus the vast majority of all R&D is conducted not just outside any given region but outside the national economy altogether.
Second, if it is accepted that codified knowledge can
be transmitted quite easily around the globe, then the kinds of industry that rely most on such knowledge are the least likely to rely on mainly local sources. So the
more scientific industries that rely on scientific papers
and patents may be involved in less localized knowledge spillovers than those that rely more on learning by doing (HOWELLS, 2002). The pharmaceutical industry is an example of the former while some types of engineering provide examples of the latter.
Third, ALLEN, 1977, showed that R&D exchanges exhibited far fewer distance decay effects when they involved intra-group communication within the framework of strong organizational bonds. In other words, the growing prevalence of multinational and multisite firms provides important vehicles for transferring research and knowledge (BLANC and SIERRA, 1999). Knowledge and information obtained in one plant can be transferred relatively easily from there to another
site belonging to the same firm. Where this is a branch plant operating in a peripheral region, such (FELDMAN, 1999). Several studies have adopted this
long distance knowledge transfers may be much more significant than anything gained from within the branch plant’s locality.
Fourth, the ability of companies to scan knowledge sources is strongly related to the size of the firm (HOWELLS, 2002). Larger firms will have more experience of research and greater knowledge capacities. As a result it may well be that reliance on local knowledge resources and spillovers is much more a small firm characteristic than a limiting factor for larger firms.
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