A pipeline for urban knowledge spillover: Based on the internal linkage of cross-regional multilocation enterprises

Abstract

Since heterogeneous knowledge resources are unevenly distributed across cities, enterprises have gradually dispersed their activities to seek location-bound knowledge resources. Compared to the literature emphasizing the “local buzz” in terms of the agglomeration of enterprises to promote localized knowledge spillover, this paper constructs a pipeline for knowledge spillover among cities through the internal linkage of multilocational enterprises at sub-national level. Empirical evidence confirms the impacts of regional knowledge resource spillover through headquarters–subsidiaries linkages on enterprises' innovation performance, which contributes to the enterprise strategy of geographical dispersion as well as policy making for urban industrial and spatial planning.