caa a22 4500 606165622 CHVBK 20210128100654.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00168-014-0655-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00168-014-0655-8 Innovation in peripheral regions: Do collaborations compensate for a lack of local knowledge spillovers? [Elektronische Daten] [Markus Grillitsch, Magnus Nilsson] It is widely accepted that firms in peripheral regions benefit to a lesser extent from local knowledge spillovers than firms located in agglomerations or industrial clusters. This paper investigates the extent to which innovative firms in peripheral regions compensate for the lack of access to local knowledge spillovers by collaborating at other geographical scales. So far, the literature predominantly suggests that collaborations complement rather than compensate for local knowledge spillovers. Using data on the collaboration patterns of innovative firms in Sweden, this paper provides evidence that firms with low access to local knowledge spillovers tend to collaborate more. This effect, however, depends on firm size and in-house capabilities. Our findings suggest that firms with strong in-house capabilities do indeed compensate for a lack of local knowledge spillovers with collaborations while firms with weaker in-house capabilities depend more on the regional knowledge infrastructure. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Grillitsch Markus CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy, Lund University, P.O. Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden aut Nilsson Magnus CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy, Lund University, P.O. Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden aut The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 54/1(2015-01-01), 299-321 0570-1864 54:1<299 2015 54 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-014-0655-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-014-0655-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grillitsch Markus CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy, Lund University, P.O. Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nilsson Magnus CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy, Lund University, P.O. Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 54/1(2015-01-01), 299-321 0570-1864 54:1<299 2015 54 168