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100			_aHerstad, Sverre J _945052
245			_aLearning through urban labour pools: Collected worker experiences and innovation in services
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 51, Issue 8, 2019,( 1720-1740 p.)
520			_aKnowledge-intensive services firms depend on the skills and networks of employees and tend to cluster in large-city regions. This raises the fundamental question of whether knowledge-intensive services firms ‘learn through urban labour pools’ in manners that have implications for innovation. To address it, a distinction is in this paper made between ‘related variety’ and ‘unrelated variety’ of work-life experiences collected by employees and combined in firms. The empirical analysis uses innovation survey and register data to demonstrate that higher levels of unrelated variety among staff in urban knowledge-intensive services firms inspire innovation activity and increase the probability of innovation success. Outside cities, where knowledge-intensive services firms on average have more specialized knowledge bases, innovation responds negatively to unrelated variety and positively to related variety. As a result, the sign, size and significance of urban–rural dividing lines in innovation propensities depend on whether firms have cultivated the skill profiles that are most conducive to innovation in their locations. Constraints faced specifically by knowledge-intensive services firms outside cities in this respect are identified and implications for policy drawn.
650			_aUrban, _945053
650			_a services, _945054
650			_a related variety, _945055
650			_aunrelated variety, _945056
650			_ainnovation _945057
700			_aSolheim, Marte CW _945058
700			_aEngen, Marit _945059
773	0		_011325 _915507 _dSage, 2019. _tEnvironmental and planning A: Economy and space
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19865550
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