The French cluster policy put to the test with differences-in-differences estimates

Olivier Brossard () and Inès Moussa ()
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Inès Moussa: LEREPS, University Toulouse 1

Economics Bulletin, 2014, vol. 34, issue 1, 520-529

Abstract: There is an abundant literature on innovative clusters but the incidence of cluster policies is hardly ever assessed. We assemble a panel of 94 French regions for 1997-2008 and use difference-in-differences regressions to evaluate the cluster policy that is being implemented in France since 2004-2005 in some of these regions. We obtain a positive, significant but rather small impact on patenting.

Keywords: Innovation; Cluster; policies; Differences-in-differences; R&D; Patents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L0 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-03-31
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