Abstract
Anokhin S., Wincent J. and Ylinenpää H. Technological expansions, catching-up innovations and technological shifts at the regional level: conceptual considerations and empirical illustration, Regional Studies. Few techniques can capture different types of regional innovations, despite the importance of distinguishing between the innovation types for practitioners and policy-makers. This paper develops and illustrates a methodology based on data envelopment analysis that could be employed to shed light on this critical issue. Different types of regional innovations are analysed based on a longitudinal analysis of all Swedish counties over a five-year period. The approach can be used to analyse and distinguish between expansion-, catching-up- and shift-based types of regional innovation. Regional innovativeness is shown to be related to the regional levels of entrepreneurial activity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1433-1448 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Regional Studies |
Volume | 50 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 Aug 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Catching-up
- Data envelopment analysis
- Expansion
- Innovation
- Sweden
- Technological shift
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Environmental Science(all)
- Social Sciences(all)