Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24850
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1456
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The BioRegio contest and the BioProfile contest initiated by the German Federal Government have drawn much international attention as prototypes of a new kind of technology policy aiming at the exploitation of regional innovation and growth potential through clustering. There is, however, little systematic analysis of their actual impact on the development of commercial biotechnology in Germany. The current paper tries to fill this gap. We find that although these contests have catalyzed the emergence and early growth of German commercial biotech it takes more than isolated policy action by national governments to grow a self-sustainable biotech industry in Europe.
Subjects: 
Clustering
biotech
technology policy
regional development
JEL: 
R11
R38
O3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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