Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?

Sergey Lychagin, Joris Pinkse, Margaret Slade () and John van Reenen

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: Using US firm level panel data we simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three potential sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technological, and product market ("horizontal"). To do so, we construct new measures of geographic proximity based on the distribution of a firm's inventor locations as well as its headquarters. We find that geographic location is important for productivity, perhaps dominating other spillover mechanisms, and that both intra- and inter-regional (counties) spillovers matter. The geographic location of a firm's researchers is more important than its headquarters. These benefits may be the reason why local policy-makers compete so hard for the location of local R&D labs and high tech workers.

Keywords: R&D spillovers; geographic proximity; technological proximity; horizontal proximity; spatial econometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 L60 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eff, nep-geo, nep-ino and nep-ure
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