Mobility and innovation: A cross-country comparison in the video games industry

Storz, Cornelia; Riboldazzi, Federico; John, Moritz

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.015

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“…Second, immigrants may introduce knowledge and skills that are not otherwise readily accessible locally (Maré et al, 2014). Human capital, such as skills and abilities, provides the basis for a firm's innovative ability (Storz et al, 2014). In the modern knowledge economy, technological change is an endogenous process, in which human resources play a central role in knowledge production (Lucas, 1988).…”

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International talent inflow and R&D investment: Firm-level evidence from China

2020

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Using firm-level R&D data with regional international talent data, we find that international talent increases the R&D investment of Chinese manufacturing firms, a result that is further confirmed with patent data and under a number of robustness checks. These findings stem from two mechanisms: international talent boosts human capital accumulation and provides a diversified labor force. Further, the R&D promoting effect is stronger if firms are located in eastern China rather than in other regions, of small and medium-sized rather than large-sized, of domestic ownership rather than foreign ownership. The policy implication is, the introduction of international talent can be a new way to promoting R&D investment, especially for skilled-labor constrained countries. and examine the impact of ITI on firms' R&D investment in China. The results indicate that ITI increases the R&D investment of Chinese manufacturing firms, and the promoting effect is stronger if the firms are located in eastern China. Further, ITI increases the R&D investment of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) more than large-sized firms, and increases the R&D investment of domestic firms but not foreign firms. In addition, using patent data, we confirm the positive effect of ITI on firm-level innovation. These findings suggest that the introduction of international talent is a new way to promoting firm-level R&D investment, and it is especially important for SMEs and domestic firms which are more resource constrained.In the theoretical literature, several mechanisms, such as a human capital accumulation effect and a labor force diversity effect, have been posited to explain the influence of immigration on innovation. On the one hand, the former effect states that ITI increases the number of research workers and enriches the local knowledge base,

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2020

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“…However, and despite the general lack of recognition in open innovation studies, it is now well established that government policies can alter innovation systems 1 by using mechanisms such as funding for innovative ideas, fair and transparent competition, well-defined and enforceable intellectual property laws, healthy interfirm relations, knowledge transfer between research and development (R&D) centers and industry, and open labor laws (Audretsch & Fritsch, 2002;Storz et al, 2015). Prior research recognizes that institutional pressures that shape national innovation system components do matter, and produce different innovation system arrangements that, in turn, foster alternative innovation patterns and outcomes (Casper & Whitley, 2004).…”

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How do institutional innovation systems affect open innovation?

Oliveira

Verreynne

Figueira

et al. 2020

Journal of Small Business Management

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It is well known that innovation benefits firms and that openness may enhance these benefits. Yet few studies consider how a firm's institutional context and different economic systems moderate openness and innovation outcomes in new ventures, which arguably are most exposed to institutional constraints. Comparing data from a liberal (Australia) and central market economy (China), and using search breadth as a measure of openness, we empirically tested the influence of external firm pressures on the relationship between openness and innovation outcomes in new ventures. Our results show that the well-established positive relationship between openness and innovation is market dependent and that, in emerging economies, it can be negative. Our findings demonstrate the importance of institutions and national economic systems in explaining open innovation in different contextsa point not yet addressed in the open innovation literature.

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“…They can bring with them the experience and knowledge that they have accumulated in their previous workplace (Eriksson and Lindgren 2008). Along these lines, the mobility of skilled labor is often treated as a source of innovation capability (Hoisl 2007;Storz, Riboldazzi, and John 2015). 3 However, for learning to happen, some level of cognitive proximity among different actors is required (Nooteboom 2000).…”

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Agglomeration and innovation of knowledge intensive business services

Kekezi

Klæsson

2019

Industry and Innovation

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For some time now, the research focusing on Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) has been very active. Observing that knowledge as a production factor is only becoming more and more pronounced, this focus is well-grounded. It is therefore important to examine how these knowledge-hubs gain and propagate their knowledge. We hypothesize that KIBS (as many other sectors) benefit from intra-industry knowledge spillovers facilitated by geographical concentration. Our focus is the innovative capacity of KIBS, which we measure through trademarks registered by KIBS firms. While there may be several mechanisms facilitating knowledge spillovers, we can identify local intra-sectoral labor mobility as one. Accessibility measures are used to assess the geographical attenuation of the spillover effects. Results show that the distance decay of spillovers is fast. Only local concentrations of KIBS seem to be of importance. Over longer distances, we instead observe negative consequences for trademarking, indicating possible spatial competition effects.

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Mobility and innovation: A cross-country comparison in the video games industry

Cited by 41 publications

References 108 publications

International talent inflow and R&D investment: Firm-level evidence from China

International talent inflow and R&D investment: Firm-level evidence from China

How do institutional innovation systems affect open innovation?

Agglomeration and innovation of knowledge intensive business services

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