Räumliche Wissens-Spillovers und regionales Wirtschaftswachstum Stand der Forschung und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen

Thomas Döring

Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, vol. 124, issue 1, 95-137

Abstract: Modern (endogenous) growth theory tells us that knowledge spillovers are crucial for the growth of high-income economies. Against this background the paper discusses how geographically limited knowledge diffusion can help to explain clusters of regions with persistently different levels of growth. The paper analyzes this topic in three steps: First, the concept of knowledge spillovers is out-lined by discussing (i) the different types of knowledge, (ii) the spatial dimension of knowledge spill-overs, and (iii) the geographical mechanisms and structural conditions of knowledge diffusion. This discussion shows that the literature on knowledge spillovers focuses on the hypotheses that such spill-overs lead to dynamic externalities and – in the geographical dimension – to agglomeration effects, both of which constitute path dependency in the economic growth of regions. Second, the paper ana-lyzes the empirical evidence for these theoretical findings. According to existing empirical work, the evidence suggests that the present studies mainly support the theoretically derived hypotheses. This applies especially with focus on the spatial limited character of knowledge spillovers as well as the importance of knowledge transfer for regional productivity and innovative behavior. Third, the ques-tion is asked whether these theoretical and empirical findings give reason for political intervention, and – given such reasons – which policy design should be chosen, if one takes into account the local-ized knowledge transfer networks as an important source of regional growth activities, but also the increasing economic inequalities between regions, which result from the agglomeration effects.

JEL-codes: R11 R12 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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