Abstract
Organizations do not operate in a vacuum. They are embedded in specific geographic locations and are subject to institutional environments that constrain and shape the way they conduct business in general, and innovation activities in particular. This article summarizes my work about how firms adapt their innovative and knowledge-sourcing activities to factors such as geographic peripherality, government monetary and non-monetary support policies, and ownership changes due to pro-market reforms during privatization processes.
Highlights
Cally considered developed but lack certain characteristics of the “core” regions of Europe in terms of innovation and economic activity, such as level of interdependence, levels of foreign investment and MNE activity, shallow knowledge pools, and low innovative activity
While the literature about these peripheral economies is growing, little is known about the patterns of innovation activity and international connectivity in these settings
Fine-slicing and international dispersion of global value networks provides opportunities for non-core locations to participate in the high knowledge components of global value chains
Summary
Cally considered developed but lack certain characteristics of the “core” regions of Europe in terms of innovation and economic activity, such as level of interdependence, levels of foreign investment and MNE activity, shallow knowledge pools, and low innovative activity My dissertation consists of three essays examining the influence of contextual factors on the patterns of knowledge-sourcing of firms. The first essay focuses on the geographical aspect and explores the influence of location in a peripheral region on the patterns of collaboration for innovation.
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