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This paper focuses on the questions to what extent agglomeration effects and localized inter-organizational linkages influence different types of innovative performance of firms. Doing so adds to the relatively scarce firm-level literature regarding the role of regional environment for the innovative performance of firms by disentangling the often conflated effects of agglomeration effects and localized inter-organizational linkages. Based on data from the Dutch automation services, we show that agglomeration economies and localized inter-organizational linkages have different effects on different types of innovative performance of firms.
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Knoben, J. Localized inter-organizational linkages, agglomeration effects, and the innovative performance of firms. Ann Reg Sci 43, 757–779 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-008-0229-8
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