caa a22 4500 475838769 CHVBK 20180406123855.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s001680000026 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s001680000026 Industry and location effects on UK plants' innovation propensity [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Roper, James H. Love, Brian Ashcroft, Stewart Dunlop] Abstract.: This paper uses UK plant-level survey data to examine the relative importance of industry concentration, technological opportunity and locational factors in determining innovation propensity.  The results suggest no evidence that industry concentration has any significant positive effect on innovation. Industries' technological characteristics are important, however, with the potential for industry-specific spill-over effects. Plants' own technological activities in terms of undertaking R&D and having an R&D department were also important determinants of innovation propensity as were plants' participation in technology transfer and inter-firm networks. Strong locational effects were identified relating to industrial composition, the level of R&D activity, external ownership, the preponderance of small firms and the general level of regional prosperity. In addition, strong interactions were evident between plants' R&D activity and their regional environment. Undertaking R&D enabled plants to take advantage of any environmental benefits for innovation and insulated them from potential negative effects. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Roper Stephen School of Management and Economics, Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK (e-mail: s.roper@qub.ac.uk), GB aut Love James H. Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK (e-mail: Lovejh@aston.ac.uk), GB aut Ashcroft Brian Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde, Curran Building, 100 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G4 0LN, UK (e-mail: b.k.ashcroft@strath.ac.uk), GB aut Dunlop Stewart Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde, Curran Building, 100 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G4 0LN, UK (e-mail: b.k.ashcroft@strath.ac.uk), GB aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680000026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680000026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roper Stephen School of Management and Economics, Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK (e-mail: s.roper@qub.ac.uk), GB aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Love James H. Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK (e-mail: Lovejh@aston.ac.uk), GB aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ashcroft Brian Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde, Curran Building, 100 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G4 0LN, UK (e-mail: b.k.ashcroft@strath.ac.uk), GB aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dunlop Stewart Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde, Curran Building, 100 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G4 0LN, UK (e-mail: b.k.ashcroft@strath.ac.uk), GB aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer