The geography of innovation in the Luxembourg metropolitan region: an intra-regional approach

Vincent Dautel and Olivier Walther

No 2011-38, LISER Working Paper Series from Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Abstract: The main objective of the paper is to analyse the local determinants of innovation in the Luxembourg metropolitan region. We are particularly interested in the impact of the local milieu and characteristics of firms. Our paper addresses two specific research questions. Firstly, we examine the extent to which geographic space is a determinant of innovation for five intra-regional units based on an aggregation of municipalities. Secondly, we investigate whether innovation is dependent on accessibility to the mean centre. In both cases, we examine innovation propensity and innovation output using microdata from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2006) carried out in Luxembourg. The paper shows that space matters both in terms of spatial units and accessibility within the intra-regional context of Luxembourg. It provides, in particular, first evidence of a close link between the effects on innovation at the intra-regional level of firms? profiles and agglomeration externalities. Both favour innovation for firms from Luxembourg-City and, to a lesser extent, from the Suburban Area.

Keywords: intra-regional innovation; firms' profile; location factors; local polynomial regression; Luxembourg metropolitan region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 O31 O38 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2011-07
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