Cross-Border Collaboration in Economic Development: Institutional Change on the Anglo-Scottish Border

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Can differences in innovativeness between European cross-border regions be explained by factors impeding cross-border business interaction?

“…Leick [ 46 ] also identified employee recruitment as a motivation for cross-border business interaction. However, motivations can shift in response to changed economic conditions and policy priorities [ 17 ], and cross-border business interaction of enterprises also depends on the size and industrial focus of the neighboring market which is also an indication of the importance of the economic environment [ 47 ]. Some Euregios have succeeded to act as a policy advisor in cross-border regions, while other multinational organizations still suffer from increased coordination costs [ 48 ].…”

“…institutional and policy changes [see also 6 , 51 ]. While cross-border business interaction fluctuated over time, Euregional institutions seem to have a positive impact on the level of cross-border business interaction [ 17 ]. An interplay of various stakeholders, such as enterprises, research organizations, and policy makers is important to facilitate knowledge flows across industries and hence to support innovation, i.e.…”

“…The availability of instruments of cross-border policy and innovation policy affect enterprises’ innovation activities [ 8 , 22 , 33 ]. Differences, synergies and complementarities of the countries in a cross-border region affect an enterprise’s willingness to cooperate [ 17 ].…”

“…Makkonen and Williams [ 16 ] provided survey metrics and applied them at enterprise level in two Nordic cross-border regions. Peck and Mulvey [ 17 ] used a qualitative case study approach to investigate the effect of national borders on the development of an enterprise’s collaboration activities. Both cross-border studies found that changes in the policy debates and economy influence the motivation for business interactions between cross-border countries.…”

Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics

“…Most of the insights concerning the CBRIS model are therefore derived from qualitative case studies. These studies include investigations into company-level cross-border innovation cooperation (van den Broek et al, 2018aBroek et al, , 2018b, the role of universities and non-profit organizations in cross-border integration (van den Broek et al, 2019;Cappellano and Makkonen, 2020b;Cappellano et al, 2020), the impact of institutional change and funding programmes on crossborder innovation cooperation (Peck and Mulvey, 2018;Makkonen et al, 2018b;Miörner et al, 2018) and the potential for adopting common cross-border innovation policies (Tõnurist and Kattel, 2017;Muller et al, 2017). These studies have shown that even CBRs with relatively high levels of (cognitive, cultural, institutional, social or geographical) proximity report low levels of cross-border innovation connections and integration, in contrast to what is suggested in the conceptual definition of a strongly integrated CBRIS by Lundquist and Trippl (2013).…”