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Markus Grillitsch

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Does institutional diversity promote global innovation networks?

Författare

  • Markus Grillitsch
  • Cristina Chaminade

Summary, in English

Recent literature stresses the increasing importance of global innovation networks as a new mechanism to organize innovation across geographical space. This paper investigates if institutional diversity, defined at the level of the firm, influences firms’ engagement in GINs. Institutional diversity provides knowledge about the institutional context of other countries, increased capabilities to deal with institutional differences, larger social networks to build GINs and a broader search space. Further, the paper examines how the absorptive capacity of firms mediates the relationship between institutional diversity and global innovation networks. The empirical study is based on a linked employee-employer dataset with 8,573 innovative firms in Sweden. It provides strong evidence that the engagement in GINs is positively related to institutional diversity and that the relation is particularly strong for global innovation networks, depending, however, on the absorptive capacity of firms.

Avdelning/ar

  • CIRCLE

Publiceringsår

2016-02-15

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Papers in Innovation Studies

Volym

2016

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Working paper

Förlag

Papers in Innovation Studies

Ämne

  • Economic Geography
  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • global innovation networks
  • institutions
  • institutional diversity
  • absorptive capacity
  • open innovation
  • D02
  • F20
  • O30

Aktiv

Published