Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages: evidence from Great Britain

Laura Abramovsky and Helen Simpson

No W09/03, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract:

We investigate evidence for spatially mediated knowledge transfer from university research. We examine whether firms locate their R&D labs near universities, and whether those that do are more likely to co-operate with, or source knowledge from universities. We find that pharmaceutical firms locate R&D near to frontier chemistry research departments, consistent with accessing localised knowledge spillovers, but also linked to the presence of science parks. In industries such as chemicals and vehicles there is less evidence of immediate co-location, but those innovative firms that do locate near to relevant research departments are more likely to engage with universities.

Keywords: Innovation; geography; spillovers; public research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 R11 R13 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-ent, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-knm, nep-mic and nep-ure
Date: 2009-01
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Working Paper: Geographic Proximity and Firm-University Innovation Linkages: evidence from Great Britain (2008)
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