Social capital and the innovative performance of Italian provinces

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作者：
Crescenzi, Riccardo [1 ,2 ]
Gagliardi, Luisa [1 ]
Percoco, Marco [3 ]
机构：
[1] London Sch Econ, Dept Geog & Environm, London WC2A 2AE, England
[2] London Sch Econ, SERC, London WC2A 2AE, England
[3] Univ Bocconi, Dept Policy Anal & Publ Management, Milan, Italy
来源：
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE | 2013年 / 45卷 / 04期
关键词：
innovation; social capital; knowledge transfer; regional development; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; WEAK TIES; ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING REGION; WESTERN-EUROPE; SPILLOVERS; KNOWLEDGE; PRODUCTIVITY; INSTITUTIONS; STRENGTH;
D O I：
10.1068/a45221
中图分类号：
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号：
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要：
Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature due to the lack of consensus on the most suitable operationalisation for the analysis of innovative dynamics. This paper aims to fill this gap by looking at social capital as propensity towards civicness and prosocial behaviour that facilitates the circulation of nonredundant knowledge among otherwise disconnected groups. The quantitative analysis of the innovative performance of Italian provinces shows that social capital proxied by blood donations and participation into voluntary associations is an important predictor of innovative performance after controlling for 'traditional' knowledge inputs (R&D and human capital). In addition, instrumental variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal links between social capital and innovation, suggesting that social norms play an important role in shaping the incentives for knowledge generation, circulation, and accumulation.
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页码：908 / 929
页数：22
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