It is widely accepted that firms in peripheral regions benefit to a lesser extent from local knowledge spillovers than … peripheral regions compensate for the lack of access to local knowledge spillovers by collaborating at other geographical scales … low access to local knowledge spillovers tend to collaborate more. This effect, however, depends on firm size and in …

This paper examines the importance of local knowledge spillovers for the innovative and economic performance of firms … local knowledge spillovers for innovation. However, not much is known about whether local knowledge spillovers work …. The survey focuses on the direct identification and measurement of local knowledge spillovers; pure knowledge spillovers …