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来源

INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW,Vol.40,Issue3,P.297-326

语言

英文

关键字

collaborative R&D projects; related variety; regional innovation; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE; PUBLIC RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE; GERMANY; GROWTH; NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; DYNAMICS; COLLABORATION

作者单位

[Broekel, Tom] Leibniz Univ Hannover, Inst Econ & Cultural Geog, Hannover, Germany. [Brachert, Matthias] Halle Inst Econ Res, Dept Struct Change & Prod, Halle, Germany. [Duschl, Matthias; Brenner, Thomas] Philipps Univ Marburg, Dept Geog, Marburg, Germany. Broekel, T (reprint author), Leibniz Univ Hannover, Inst Econ & Cultural Geog, Hannover, Germany. E-Mail: broekel@wigeo.uni-hannover.de

摘要

Subsidies for research and development (R&D) are an important tool of public R&D policy, which motivates extensive scientific analyses and evaluations. This article adds to this literature by arguing that the effects of R&D subsidies go beyond the extension of organizations' monetary resources invested into R&D. It is argued that collaboration induced by subsidized joint R&D projects yield significant effects that are missed in traditional analyses. An empirical study on the level of German labor market regions substantiates this claim, showing that collaborative R&D subsidies impact regions' innovation growth when providing access to related variety and embedding regions into central positions in cross-regional knowledge networks.