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Article in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

8/3/2012

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My latest article has just appeared in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. It is a co-authored article with Dr. Eoin O'Leary and Dr. Declen Jordan (both also in the School of Economics in UCC).  The article focuses on the impact of proximate and distant interaction on the likelihood of firms innovating while also taking account of the frequency with which firms interact.  The article can be downloaded from here.  The abstract is given below:

The effects of the frequency of spatially proximate and distant interaction on innovation by Irish SMEs

Abstract: This paper tests whether more frequent interaction at different spatial levels has a positive effect on the innovation performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the South-West and South-East of Ireland. Based on an original survey, it finds that more frequent interaction generally increases innovation likelihood, but at a diminishing rate, thus suggesting a trade-off between resources dedicated to transforming knowledge into new products and processes. Spatially distant interaction is found to be at least as valuable as proximate interaction, which questions the received wisdom that the best sources of knowledge are regional. Given the value of distant interaction, the results indicate that regional lock-in may be an obstacle to superior innovation performance of SMEs.
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7/23/2013 09:48:10 pm

This is great to hear that your latest article has been published in the Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. I appreciate you for this great achievement and thanks for passing the info to the readers. You have great talent in writing and this incident is a clear example of it. Thank you.

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2/12/2019 01:21:44 am

Thank you so much! Glad to find this post.

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    Justin Doran is a Lecturer in Economics, in the Department of Economics, University College Cork, Ireland.

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