Assessing the collaboration and network additionality of innovation policies: a counterfactual approach to the French cluster policy

Konan Alain N’Ghauran () and Corinne Autant-Bernard
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Konan Alain N’Ghauran: Univ Lyon, UJM Saint-Etienne, CNRS, GATE L-SE UMR 5824, F-42023 Saint-Etienne, France
Corinne Autant-Bernard: Univ Lyon, UJM Saint-Etienne, CNRS, GATE L-SE UMR 5824, F-42023 Saint-Etienne, France

No 2004, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Etienne (GATE Lyon St-Etienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: Whereas most collaboration-based innovation policies aim at fostering efficient ecosystems of innovation, evaluations of the behavioural impact of such policies remain few and far between. Relying on external-to-the-policy network data to build a counterfactual approach, this paper addresses three main evaluation issues: do cluster policies make firms more collaborative? Do they encourage local ties? Do they induce network additionality? Focusing on French data, our results suggest that cluster policies may lack effectiveness in tackling network failures.

Keywords: Policy evaluation; Behavioural additionality; Organisational change; Counterfactual approach; Social network analysis; Cluster policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D04 O32 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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