Theme D CITY AND INNOVATION: DIFFERENT SIZE, DIFFERENT STRATEGY.
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The objective of this paper is to assess whether establishments' innovation performance and innovation strategies differ by the size of the city in which they are located. Using the Canadian 1999 Survey of Innovation database (establishment-based), we find that establishments belonging to smaller cities (with populations of less than 50,000) are less likely to be associated to a world-first innovation than those located in larger cities. The last result holds even when controlling for the industrial distribution in each group of cities. Four innovation strategies have been retained –Private source, R&D, Collaboration and public science base paths – and the results show that the R&D path (lead by performing R&D and using source of information from R&D) leads to the greatest increase in the estimated probability to be associated with a world-first innovation, for almost all sectors and all city-sizes.
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