 How and Why Does the Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems Differ?Chapter 5 in Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition, 2003, pp 79-96 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The question “Do Regions Matter for R&D?” (Kleinknecht and Poot, 1992) has a long tradition in the regional economics literature. While a number of hypotheses suggest that location has a strong impact on innovation activity, the available empirical evidence is not at all persuasive (section 2). This paper investigates differences in innovation behavior in a sample of eleven European regions (section 3). The analysis reveals a number of differences in the input and output of innovation processes (section 4). The focus of analysis is, however, on the productivity of innovation activities that can be considered a measure of the quality of a regional innovation system. Section 5 explains how estimates for the efficiency of regional innovation systems are derived from a knowledge production function and discusses the results for the sample of eleven European regions. The question whether these differences in the efficiency of innovation activity can be explained by R&D cooperation behavior is investigated in section 6. Section 7 contains some final remarks. Keywords: Innovation Process; Innovation Activity; Regional Innovation; Cooperative Relationship; Output Elasticity (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-540-24760-9_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24760-9_5 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Advances in Spatial Science from Springer |
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