 The Location of Industry R&D and the Location of University R&D: How Are They Related?Charlie Karlsson (charlie.karlsson@ju.se) and Martin Andersson Chapter Chapter 15 in New Directions in Regional Economic Development, 2009, pp 267-290 from Springer Abstract: Abstract At the same time as we can observe strong tendencies of globalization of R&D (Florida 1997; Cantwell 1998), we also observe strong spatial clustering of R&D and related innovation activities (Audretsch and Feldman 1996). The standard explanation in the literature of the clustering phenomenon is that clustering brings about external knowledge economies, typically in the form of knowledge flows,1 which tend to be spatially bounded (Jaffe et al. 1993). R&D is a typical innovation activity; irrespective of whether it is focused on new products or new processes. Industry – i.e., private firms – and universities are the major performers of R&D. It is well established in the literature that both university and industry R&D have a positive effect on innovation output (often measured by patent applications), but that the effect diminishes with distance because knowledge flows are spatially bound and that clustering is consequently an effective spatial configuration. Keywords: Technological Knowledge; Knowledge Spillover; Functional Region; Knowledge Flow; Innovation Output (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:978-3-642-01017-0_15 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01017-0_15 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Advances in Spatial Science from Springer |
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