Knowledge Creation and Regional Spillovers: Empirical Evidence from Germany

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development

卷:21

Akhvlediani Tinatin¹  Cieślik Andrzej² 

[1] Department of Economics, College of Europe, Brugge, Belgium;

[2] Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw , Warsaw , Poland;

关键词: augmented griliches-jaffe knowledge production function;    innovation;    knowledge spillovers;    regions;    germany;   

DOI  :  10.1515/mgrsd-2017-0033

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The paper examines the effects of intra- and inter-regional knowledge spillovers on innovative activities in German states using the augmented Griliches-Jaffe knowledge production function. The “Harris market potential” type index is calculated to proxy for inter-regional knowledge transfers of two types: industrial knowledge transfers generated from the business enterprise sector and academic spillovers generated from universities across all German states. The model also includes the concentration of high-tech enterprises, in order to capture the agglomeration effect in the local economy. The estimation results reveal that not only do local private and university research efforts have a positive and significant effect on local innovative activities, but there are also important interregional knowledge spillovers across the German regions.

【 授权许可】

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