How and why does the efficiency of regional innovation systems differ?

Michael Fritsch ()

No 2002/05, Freiberg Working Papers from TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: Literature suggests that location should matter for R&D activities. However, attempts to empirically detect differences in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains comparable information about manufacturing enterprises in eleven European regions, a number of significant regional differences in the efficiency of innovation activities can be found. This variation is in correspondence with a center-periphery pattern indicating that agglomeration economies are conducive to R&D activities. The paper investigates whether the differences in efficiency of regional innovation systems can be explained by differences in R&D-cooperation behavior.

Keywords: Innovation; R&D productivity; R&D cooperation; regional innovation systems; knowledge production function; Innovation; FuE Produktivität; FuE Kooperation; Regionale Innovationssysteme; Wissensproduktionsfunktion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 L6 O32 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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