全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP16298 The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP16298
	DP16298 The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU
	José Luis Hervás-Oliver; Mario Davide Parrilli; Andrés Rodríguez-Pose; Francisca Sempere-Ripoll
发表日期	2021-06-26
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	European Union (EU) innovation policies have for long remained mostly research driven. The fundamental goal has been to achieve a rate of R&D investment of 3% of GDP. Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovation, however, relies on a variety of internal sources —both R&D and non-R&D based— and external drivers, such as collaboration with other firms and research centres, and is profoundly influence by location and context. Given this multiplicity of innovation activities, this study argues that innovation policies fundamentally based on a place-blind increase of R&D investment may not deliver the best outcomes in regions where the capacity of SMEs is to benefit from R&D is limited. We posit that collaboration and regional specificities can play a greater role in determining SME innovation, beyond just R&D activities. Using data from the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS), covering 220 regions across 22 European countries, we find that regions in Europe differ significantly in terms of SME innovation depending on their location. SMEs in more innovative regions benefit to a far greater extent from a combination of internal R&D, external collaboration of all sorts, and non-R&D inputs. SMEs in less innovative regions rely fundamentally on external sources and, particularly, on collaboration with other firms. Greater investment in public R&D does not always lead to improvements in regional SME innovation, regardless of context. Collaboration is a central innovation activity that can complement R&D, showing an even stronger effect on SME innovation than R&D. Hence, a more collaboration-based and place-sensitive policy is required to maximise SME innovation across the variety of European regional contexts.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词	Regional innovation Smes R&d Place-based Collaboration Eu regions
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp16298
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545263
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	José Luis Hervás-Oliver,Mario Davide Parrilli,Andrés Rodríguez-Pose,et al. DP16298 The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU. 2021.