Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Jos van den Broek
Author-Name-First: Jos
Author-Name-Last: van den Broek
Author-Name: Paul Benneworth
Author-Name-First: Paul
Author-Name-Last: Benneworth
Author-Name: Roel Rutten
Author-Name-First: Roel
Author-Name-Last: Rutten
Title: Border blocking effects in collaborative firm innovation
Abstract: Border regions are not often associated with innovation and economic prosperity.
Nevertheless, the opening up of borders in Europe has presented new opportunities for
firms located in these border regions to co-operate and find necessary resources for their
innovation process. Despite the reduction of the importance of borders, firms seeking to
access those resources need still ‘cross’ the border and address the various effects it
brings. This paper therefore asks the question of how the presence of a border affects the
processes by which firms attempt to build up productive co-operations for innovation.
We stylise inter-firm innovation across borders as building up through four sequential
stages cooperation in four stages, and each of these different stages are susceptible to
different kinds of border effects. Using a case study of firms co-operating across the
Dutch-Flemish border, we empirically explore these border crossing processes in order
to shed further light on how border processes play out.
Length: 29 pages
Creation-Date: 2016
File-URL: https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/14233314
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 201602
Keywords: Borders, Dutch-Flemish border region, case study, innovation, collaboration, firms
Handle: RePEc:chs:wpachs:201602