Regional Specialization and Universities: The New Verus the Old

Pontus Brodde Braunerhjelm ()

No 55, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact universities have on regional development and as to whether a difference can be detected between the influence of the old and new universities. To achieve this end a unique dataset on the researchers’ view regarding the universities role in commer-cialization, distinguishing between new universities (established around 1970) and old univer-sities (established in the 15th and 17th century), is initially utilized. In the subsequent stage spatially disaggregated data is implemented in a two-step Heckman regression analysis to ex-amine whether a relationship exists between the universities research specialization and re-gional production specialization 1975 to 1999. The results reveal that there are considerable differences across universities, albeit primarily unrelated to the age of the universities. Fi-nally, the impact of universities on regional productivity in knowledge-based industries is ex-amined.

Keywords: Universities; norms; regional development; policies. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 O31 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-ino and nep-ure
Date: 2006-03-28
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