scholarly journals The roles of KIBS and R&D in the industrial diversification of regions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Content ◽  
Nicola Cortinovis ◽  
Koen Frenken ◽  
Jacob Jordaan
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Industrial Base ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Industrial Diversification ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
New Industry ◽  
Do So

AbstractThere is a growing recognition of the importance of the creation of new industrial specialisations for sustained regional growth. However, path dependency often limits a region’s ability to do so, as the occurrence of new industrial specialisations is conditioned by its existing industrial base. In this paper, we use data for 269 NUTS-2 EU regions to examine whether regional Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and Research and Development (R&D) enhance the capacity of regions to specialise in new industries, against the forces of path dependence. Our findings show that both KIBS and R&D exercise direct positive effects on the creation of new industry specialisations and that professional-KIBS and public R&D impact negatively on the relatedness of new specialisations, while private R&D does so positively.

scholarly journals Panel analysis of the creation of new KIBS in Spain: The role of manufacturing and regional innovation systems (RIS).

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Eduardo Sisti ◽  
Arantza Zubiaurre Goena
Keyword(s):  
Regional Growth ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Regional Innovation Systems ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

AbstractTerritorial servitization is a topic of interest due its impact on regional growth and innovation. Considering that the formation of new KIBS is a good indicator of such TS process and with the aim of contributing to the empirical literature on this topic, this study analyses to what extent the ‘manufacturing quality’ and ‘innovation environment’ profiles determined the different types of new knowledge intensive business services (KIBS).  The research tackles the creation of new KIBS in 17 Spanish regions for the period 2000 to 2016 in the respective regions. The results reveal that new KIBS were deeply affected by economic changes that happened as a result of the great 2008 crisis and some KIBS categories are more affected by the techno-economic environment than others.

Impact of Digitalization on Service Work in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: An Empirical Study in Tax Consultancies

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Philipp K. Görs ◽  
Henning Hummert ◽  
Anne Traum ◽  
Friedemann W. Nerdinger
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Special Case

Digitalization is a megatrend, but there is relatively little knowledge about its consequences for service work in general and specifically in knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). We studied the impact of digitalization on psychological consequences for employees in tax consultancies as a special case of KIBS. We compare two tax consulting jobs with very different job demands, those of tax consultants (TCs) and assistant tax consultants (ATCs). The results show that the extent of digitalization at the workplace level for ATCs correlates significantly positively with their job satisfaction. For TCs, the same variable correlates positively with their work engagement. These positive effects of digitalization are mediated in the case of ATCs by the impact on important job characteristics. In the case of TCs, which already have very good working conditions, the impact is mediated by the positive effect on self-efficacy. Theoretical and practical consequences of these results are discussed.

Human Capital and Knowledge-Intensive Industries Location: Evidence from Soviet Legacy in Russia

2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 736-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Planned Economy ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Human Capital Externalities ◽  
Soviet Legacy ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Capital Intensive

Do human capital endowments trump location for knowledge-intensive industries? This article takes advantage of a natural experiment created by the end of the Soviet planned economy in 1991, which had geographically distributed R&D manpower according to planned needs as opposed to a distribution determined by a market economy. It examines the extent to which the planned economy created a path-dependence in the location of post-Soviet human-capital intensive production. The study finds that regions with more R&D personnel in 1991 did better in the development of modern market-oriented knowledge-intensive business services, like engineering and IT. Several explanations are offered for this path-dependence, with an emphasis on human capital externalities being the most plausible.

Economic Development Through Regional Approach

2017 ◽  
pp. 31-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Regional Approach ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Economic Development Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Payoff Structure ◽  
The Creation

Entrepreneurship has potentially short, medium, and long-term consequences for regions, including the creation of employment and wealth. Efficient firms grow and survive while inefficient firms decline and fall. Regions have gained a position at the forefront of the economic development policy agenda. However, the regional approach to economic strategy remains contested. The ability of regions to gain from the positive effects of entrepreneurship will depend on their institutional arrangements, the social payoff structure, and their ability to turn knowledge into regional growth through the creation and dissemination of knowledge. Through in-depth observation, examining policies, and content analysis of relevant documents, this chapter through case study of Pune Auto Component Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) from India attempts to explore and understand the extent economic development occurs when regional approach is adopted.

scholarly journals DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES IN AUTOMOTIVE POLLUTANTS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGIES: CASE STUDY

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-41
Author(s):  
DANIEL LEITE MESQUITA ◽  
ALEX FERNANDO BORGES ◽  
ANTÔNIO CARLOS DOS SANTOS ◽  
JOEL YUTAKA SUGANO ◽  
TAIS CASTRO VELOSO
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Reduction Techniques ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Pollutant Reduction ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Do So

ABSTRACT Purpose: The aim of this paper is to analyze the dynamic capabilities related to the generation of pollutant reduction techniques according with Teece's proposition. In order to do so, we developed a case study in a Brazilian automaker. Originality/gap/relevance/implications: This paper discusses empirically aspects of creation of dynamic capabilities and innovations from its foundations. The originality of the study resides in a clearer understanding inside an organization the conception of dynamic capabilities and innovations through time. Key methodological aspects: In this paper, an automaker was studied, focusing on interviewers' interpretations concerning on the creation of reduction of pollutants technologies. The data collected were qualitative and they were analyzed through the technique of content analysis. Summary of key results: As main results, we observed that Integration and development capabilities were found and they were characterized as dynamic capabilities in the sense that, they are all based in the automaker's adaptation to its external environment. The path dependence of the automaker was also observed, through all the innovations that were created during the automaker's history towards more efficient and less pollutant vehicles. Key considerations/conclusions: Summarizing, the automaker seeks to ‘perceive' its dynamic capabilities from market's actions, since the organization has an historical path and also its R&D capabilities. So on the seizing phase of the Dynamic Capabilities, the organization seeks to ‘create value' to its customers.

scholarly journals The role of foreign direct investments (FDI) in establishing knowledge economy in the Czech Republic: the case of knowledge-intensive business services

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Pavel Ptáček
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
World Languages ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Investment Boom

For the location of new activities in CEE, a helpful factor was sobering up of the European companies from the Indian euphoria. Because of different, lower-level property rights, difficulties in intercultural communication and, very often, only superficial knowledge of the topic, the companies stopped outsourcing of some more sensitive activities to India or China.From the global point of view the “CEE miracle” is hard to compare with Asia, if in 2006 the CEE region received only a little more than $2B, in comparison to $386.5B worldwide (Třešňák 2007). But it brings new high-quality working places and highly embedded investments; additionally the multiplying effect is also much higher than in mounting factories activities. Outsourcing also supports motivation for education, world languages knowledge, travelling, and other positive phenomena. There are no or only very few risks. Who can be the competitor in the region? Economists do not suppose that the investment boom will stop in the near future. But Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, and maybe countries of former Yugoslavia are perceived as direct future competitors of the Vysehrad region. Despite the fact that we can observe a geographical trend towards selective concentration of these quaternary activities to big centres, especially metropolitan regions, and increasing polarisation between regions, positive effects for the country as a whole prevail. An important role of FDI localisation is played by the presence of technical universities and other „soft“ infrastructure. They do not bring the highest number of created jobs, but they are crucial in embedding other economic activities.

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