Border blocking effects in collaborative firm innovation

Jos van den Broek; Paul Benneworth; Roel Rutten

doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2018.1476470

Border blocking effects in collaborative firm innovation

Jos van den Broek, Paul Benneworth, Roel Rutten

Rathenau Institute

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Abstract

Border regions are not often associated with innovation and economic prosperity. And even when they are prosperous, cross-border interaction is still mostly limited. The opening up of borders in Europe has presented new opportunities for firms located in these border regions to co-operate for innovation and knowledge to flow across borders. Despite the reduction of the importance of borders, firms seeking to access cross-border knowledge resources need still to ‘cross’ the border and address the various effects it brings. This paper therefore asks the question of how the presence of a border affects the processes by which firms attempt to build up productive co-operations for innovation. We use a heuristic of collaborative innovation across borders as building up through four sequential cooperation stages, and each of these different stages is susceptible to different kinds of border effects. Using a case study of firms co-operating across the Dutch-Flemish border, we empirically explore these border crossing processes in order to shed further light on how border processes play out.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1330-1346
Number of pages	16
Journal	European Planning Studies
Volume	26
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2018.1476470
Publication status	Published - 18 May 2018

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