Peripherality and university collaboration: Evidence from rural SMEs in the UK

Andrew Johnston; Daniel  Prokop

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.08.014

Peripherality and university collaboration: Evidence from rural SMEs in the UK

Andrew Johnston, Daniel Prokop

CBL International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship (ICTE)

Cardiff University

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Abstract

While innovation is viewed as crucial means of promoting competitiveness of rural SMEs, rural areas can be blighted by an ‘underdeveloped innovation environment’. Perhaps due to an urban bias in innovation research, open innovation through university collaboration among rural SMEs has not been extensively examined. Using a dataset of 880 rural SMEs from the UK, the paper suggests that rural SMEs are less likely to collaborate with a university than urban SMEs. Furthermore, higher numbers of employees and export revenues have a positive influence on the propensity to collaborate with a university. In addition, collaborating with organisations such as private laboratories and public sector research institutes increases the propensity to engage in university collaboration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	298-306
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Rural Studies
Volume	88
Early online date	16 Aug 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.08.014
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2021

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European Horizon 2020	799769

Keywords

Rural SMEs
University-industry links
University collaboration
Open innovation
Rural development

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development
Development
Sociology and Political Science

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