[ Les effets de la proximité sur les relations technologiques - Une identification de la relation à l'aide de l'économétrie des données de Panel: Le cas des entreprises françaises ]
Volume 9, Issue 1, November 2014, Pages 37–52
Ahmed Lakssissar1
1 Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III, Faculté d'Economie Appliquée, Centre d'analyse économique, 13628 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 14, France
Original language: French
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The aim of this paper is to investigate and assess the role of geographical proximity on firm technological linkages. Our results suggest that the knowledge dissemination must be supplemented by otherfactor. The econometric analysis confirms the importance of the geographical proximity in the innovation process of french firms. Facors, such as, a larger mobility of skilled labor force, higher organization size and a greater absorptive capacity of innovative firms, may also play an important role in the this process. However, the inter-firms cooperation in french and their sectoral membership don't appear to be essential to increase their innovating capacity.
Author Keywords: proximity, cooperation, absorptive, knowledge and externalities.
Volume 9, Issue 1, November 2014, Pages 37–52
Ahmed Lakssissar1
1 Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III, Faculté d'Economie Appliquée, Centre d'analyse économique, 13628 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 14, France
Original language: French
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to investigate and assess the role of geographical proximity on firm technological linkages. Our results suggest that the knowledge dissemination must be supplemented by otherfactor. The econometric analysis confirms the importance of the geographical proximity in the innovation process of french firms. Facors, such as, a larger mobility of skilled labor force, higher organization size and a greater absorptive capacity of innovative firms, may also play an important role in the this process. However, the inter-firms cooperation in french and their sectoral membership don't appear to be essential to increase their innovating capacity.
Author Keywords: proximity, cooperation, absorptive, knowledge and externalities.
Abstract: (french)
L'objet de notre travail sera d'évaluer le rôle de la proximité géographique sur les relations technologiques des entreprises, et de montrer que son rôle dans la diffusion de la connaissance doit être compléter par d'autres facteurs. Nos résultats économétriques confirment l'importance de la proximité géographique dans le processus d'innovation des firmes françaises, et montrent qu'un tel effet passe par les canaux suivants : une forte mobilité de la main d'œuvre qualifiée, une taille assez importante de l'organisation et une grande capacité d'absorption des entreprises. En revanche, la coopération entre les firmes françaises et leur appartenance sectorielle ne s'avèrent pas indispensable pour augmenter leur capacité innovatrice.
Author Keywords: proximité, coopération, capacité d'absorption, connaissances et externalités.
How to Cite this Article
Ahmed Lakssissar, “The role of geographical proximity on firm technological linkage - An identification of the relation by means of the econometrics of the data of Panel: The case of the French companies,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 37–52, November 2014.
