Regional co-evolution of firm population, innovationand public research? Evidence from the West German laser industry

Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg and Guido Buenstorf

No 2015-02, Papers on Economics and Evolution from Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography

Abstract: We explore the regional co-evolution of firm population size, private-sector patenting and public research in the empirical context of German laser research and manufacturing over more than 40 years from the emergence of the industry to the mid-2000s. Our qualitative as well as quantitative evidence is suggestive of a co-evolutionary process of mutual interdependence rather than a unidirectional effect of public research on private- sector activities.

Keywords: co-evolution; innovation systems; vector autoregression; laser technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 O31 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2015-08-05
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