Geography, knowledge spillovers and small firms’ exports: an empirical examination for The Netherlands

Beers, Cees van; Panne, G. van der

doi:10.1007/s11187-009-9245-z

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“…Intermediary organisations playing a brokering and capability building role are likely to be 11 This is warranted by analysis of the positive externalities from R&D and innovation which suggest that these effects can be significant (Mansfield, Rapoport, Romero, Wagner and Beardsley 1977), strongly localised (Ceh 2009;Feldman 2003) and vary markedly by technology type (van Beers and van der Panne 2011;Kesidou, Caniels, and Romijn 2009;Moreno, Paci, and Usai 2005;Fritsch and Franke 2004). As such this argument for intervention in supporting OI activities directly parallels the standard justification for public R&D and innovation support with its benefits to generate positive externalities (Crespo, Fontoura, and Proenca 2009;Norberg-Bohm 2000;Mohnen 1996). central to any such interventions (Watkins and Horley 1986;Mantel and Rosseger 1987;Gould and Fernandez 1989;Howells 2006;Clarysse et al 2014) 12 .…”

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Exploring market failures in open innovation

Hewitt‐Dundas

Roper

2017

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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There is now considerable empirical evidence demonstrating the innovation and performance benefits that accrue to firms engaging in Open Innovation (OI). Here, we use novel data on micro-businesses to show that the average level of engagement in open innovation falls well below the optimal level, a finding that reflects that of other empirical studies. We identify and examine three market failures which may help to explain this result. These relate to: firms' lack of understanding of the potential benefits of OI; a lack of information about the capabilities of potential partners; and, a lack of information about the trustworthiness of potential partners. Our findings provide evidence that policy initiatives designed to offset these information failures are likely to increase the range of partners with which firms engage with significant benefits for innovation.

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Exploring market failures in open innovation

Hewitt‐Dundas

Roper

2017

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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“…PRX i = PRO i − PRO as an indicator of abnormal returns [69], where PRO i = pre-tax profits for company i and PRO = annual average profits. Several research works have adopted a similar approach regarding the use of explanatory variables of profitability in export companies (e.g., [70]). PRX i /SAL i is an indicator of the effort required to achieve the result, where SAL i are the sales for company i.…”

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Response of Fresh Food Suppliers to Sustainable Supply Chain Management of Large European Retailers

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This article analyses new supply chain management (SCM) strategies of the largest retail distribution chains in Europe within the context of differing sustainability concepts and approaches. An analysis is carried out of the strategic plans of such retailers, as well as recent developments in the sector. We begin by identifying the priority actions of retailers and then evaluating, by means of a survey, how small horticultural marketing firms (mainly cooperatives) in southeast Spain respond to the needs of these retailers. Subsequently, an analysis is carried out on these small marketing firm exporters to identify the relative weight which they assign to the variables assessed, while also considering the existing relationships between said weighted variables and business profits. Our results show that retailers tend to establish more simplified supply chains (that is, shorter and more vertical), essentially demonstrating their interpretation of a sustainable supply chain. In contrast, horticultural marketing firms have concentrated more on tactical and operational issues, thereby neglecting environmental, social and logistics management. Thus, their success rate in meeting the sustainability demands of their customers can be considered medium-low, requiring a more proactive attitude. Improved and collaborative relations, and the integration of sustainability concepts between suppliers (marketing firms) and their clients could contribute to successfully meeting sustainability demands. From the point of view of the consumer, close supplier–retail relationships have solved food safety issues, but the implementation of sustainability in other supply chain activities and processes is a pending issue. We propose strategic approximation and collaboration to bridge the gap between the varying sustainability demands in the supplier–retail relationship within perishable supply chains. Although this article specifically addresses fresh vegetable supply chains, the results may be extrapolated to other agri-food chains with a similar structure.

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“…Their results suggest that specialisation externalities do not affect export performance, but scale economies combined with urbanisation externalities have an impact on export. Van Beers and van der Panne () discuss the impact of external (and internal) economies of scale on the probability to start exporting and on the export intensity of a sample of product‐innovation‐announcing firms in the Netherlands. They find that specialisation has a negative and statistically significant impact on both the probability to export and the export intensity, while local variety has a negligible effect.…”

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“…; Fazio & Maltese ) has been widely investigated during the last two decades, only recently a body of literature has analysed the relationship between agglomeration and international linkages (Becchetti & Rossi ; Becchetti et al . ; Antonietti & Cainelli ; van Beers & van der Panne ; Rodríguez‐Pose et al . ; Cainelli et al .…”

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“…) – firms’ entry costs in foreign markets. Such sunk (fixed) costs are generally costs of gathering information on characteristics of clients and competitors, foreign regulations and tastes, and so on (van Beers & van der Panne ). This type of information can be (unintentionally) obtained from firms belonging to the same industry (intra‐industry knowledge spillovers) or from firms belonging to related‐industries (inter‐industry knowledge spillovers).…”

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Does Agglomeration Affect Exports? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets

Cainelli

Maria

Ganau

2016

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper analyses whether and how agglomeration economies – related variety, specialisation and urbanisation – affect the export performance of Italian local labour markets (LLM). Adopting spatial econometric techniques, and controlling for potential non‐linear effects, we find that related variety has a negligible effect on LLMs’ export intensity, while the effect of specialisation economies is negative. On the contrary, urbanisation economies positively affect export intensity. The robustness of these results is tested and confirmed using an alternative (institutional‐based) spatial weights matrix.

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Geography, knowledge spillovers and small firms’ exports: an empirical examination for The Netherlands

Abstract: Exports, Innovation, Scale economies, Small firms, L26, R12, Q31,

Cited by 21 publications

References 48 publications

Exploring market failures in open innovation

Exploring market failures in open innovation

Response of Fresh Food Suppliers to Sustainable Supply Chain Management of Large European Retailers

Does Agglomeration Affect Exports? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets

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