The quality of the analysis of CCIs locations depends on the quality of data employed. Official statistics miss information that is finely disaggregated, both at the industrial and at the geographical level. The aim of this chapter is to present a novel database built for this work, starting from Orbis data. The most relevant aspect is to measure two determinants of CCIs: creative employment, considered a proper indication of the amount of creatives in a given location, and the degree of innovativeness of these industries in space. The richness of the database created allows maps on the geography of CCIs to be produced according to their different degrees of innovation intensity.
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The database allows mitigation of the possible trade-off between industrial and spatial disaggregation that may emerge in studies like this one. In fact, because of privacy issues, it is usual for firms not to disclose at the same time details on industrial and spatial details. In that case, it would be possible to identify firms that produce a very specific type of good.
To avoid misconducts, the access to the Historical Orbis platform was allowed only to a dedicated PC at the Technology Transfer Office of the Politecnico di Milano. I thank Massimo Barbieri for his support during this process.
In most of the cases, each record found in Orbis refers to a specific establishment, even if it belongs to a larger company. For instance, this is the case of national-level companies belonging to a larger group (e.g. Adidas has national branches, each of them representing a single entity). Dropping C2 records from the sample has exactly the aim of preventing the data from containing both the holding company, embedding all employees from all branches, and branches themselves. Therefore, through this methodology the database contains all the different establishments of a group if the information is separated and available; otherwise, if only the data for the headquarter is available, this is considered alone.
These variables are in an industry-region scale. The average indicated here refers to the average productivity measured across industries, for each region.
The subdivision of manufacturing codes according to high-tech propensity follows the criteria provided by Eurostat: Indicators on High-tech industry and Knowledge—intensive services.
The ownership of works of art, literature, music, multimedia and other protectable works in general resides in their creators (see the EUIPO website for further information).
FIGARO—Experimental statistics—Eurostat. The FIGARO tables were born to analyse the socio-economic and environmental effects of globalisation also through global value chain relationships.
The share is calculated using the overall regional employment as denominator. The source can be either Eurostat or ARDECO. The spatial distribution does not present major changes in either of the two cases.
Usually, international bodies dealing with IPRs prefer an industrial classification of sectors according to the intensity in producing patents, trademarks, or copyrights (EPO and EUIPO 2016; ESA and USPTO 2016; USPTO 2012).
Post-hoc tests are conducted after the fact, i.e. after a significant ANOVA, and they are used to evaluate among which groups the significant differences exist.