Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:  Simona Iammarino
Author-X-Name-First: Simona
Author-X-Name-Last: Iammarino
Author-Email:  S.Iammarino@sussex.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK
Author-Name:  Mariacristina Piva
Author-X-Name-First: Mariacristina
Author-X-Name-Last: Piva
Author-Email:  mariacristina.piva@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Author-Name:  Marco Vivarelli
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Vivarelli
Author-Email:  marco.vivarelli@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Author-Name:  Nick Von Tunzelmann
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Von Tunzelmann
Author-Email: G.N.Von-Tunzelmann@sussex.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK
Title:  Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms: a regional investigation
Abstract:  This paper focuses on the relationship between firms’ technological capabilities and different 
forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, 
i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK 
Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship between 
cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by 
business units. Firstly, the distinction between competences and capabilities adopted in this 
paper seems appropriate for going beyond the rather simplistic dichotomy of ‘innovative’ versus 
‘non-innovative’ firms commonly used in interpreting CIS data. Secondly, we find that the analysis 
for the UK as a whole masks stark regional differences in terms of intra- and extra-region 
collaborative linkages and degrees of firms’ technological capabilities. These findings may be 
useful to help policy making to meet the priorities highlighted within the UK Government’s 
framework for Science & Technology. 
Creation-Date: 2010-01
Publication-Status: 
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/dipartimenti/DISES/allegati/dises1058.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2010
Number: Number: dises1058
Classification-JEL: O30, R12
Keywords: cooperation for innovation, technological capabilities, firms, regions
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie2:dises1058