Research clusters: How public subsidies matter

Marie-Laure Cabon-Dhersin and Emmanuelle Taugourdeau

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: This paper investigates the factors underlying the emergence of Research Cluster (RC), i.e. cooperation (or coordination of research efforts) through spatial proximity between public and private research teams. A ‘public lab’ and a ‘private lab’ interact in a two-stage game to decide on ‘location’ and ‘research effort’. A high level of public subsidies associated to a low asymmetry in the ‘valorisation capability’ between both labs is necessary for the formation of a cluster. We find that RC performs better than non-cooperation in terms of research efforts in a ‘public lab’ (but not in a ‘private lab’) and output gains that can be appropriated by each lab

Keywords: Research cooperation; spatial location; public subsidy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C7 H2 H4 L3 L5 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2015-02
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Working Paper: Research clusters: How public subsidies matter? (2015)
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