@techreport{Falck2008extension,
abstract = {If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the Cluster Initiative introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state-wide knowledge flows. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that introducing the Bavarian-wide cluster policy increased the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is mainly driven by large firms&rsquo; increased likelihood to innovate.},
address = {Jena},
author = {Oliver Falck and Stephan Heblich and Stefan Kipar},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {R38; R11; O32; 330; Difference-in difference; cluster policy; regional policy; Regionalpolitik; Innovationspolitik; Business Network; Regionale Konzentration; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse; Innovation; Bayern},
language = {eng},
number = {2008,073},
publisher = {Universit\"{a}t Jena und Max-Planck-Institut f\"{u}r \"{O}konomik},
title = {The extension of clusters: differences-in-difference evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy},
type = {Jena economic research papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31771},
year = {2008}
}
