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The importance of R&D subsidies and technological infrastructure for regional innovation performance - A conditional efficiency approach

Tom Broekel and Charlotte Schlump (schlump@staff.uni-marburg.de)

No 921, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: The importance of R&D subsidies for innovation activities is highlighted by numerous firm-level studies. These approaches miss however the systematic regional character of innovation activities and potential firm-spanning effects of this policy measure. The literature on regional innovation performance has widely neglected R&D subsidies so far. This paper analyzes the importance of R&D subsidies as well as the relevance of a publicly funded technological infrastructure for the innovation efficiency of German regions. Using conditional nonparametric frontier techniques we find positive effects of R&D subsidies and somewhat smaller ones for the technological infrastructure, which however vary between industries.

Keywords: innovation policy; regional innovation efficiency; technological infrastructure; stepwise conditional efficiency analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 O38 R12 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2009-11, Revised 2009-11
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