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| Title: | | Measuring regional innovativeness: a methodological discussion and an application to one German industry  |
| Authors: | | Broekel, Tom Brenner, Thomas |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2007,065 |
| Abstract: | | The regional or national innovation performance has been repeatedly measured in the literature; but it has so far not been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is the contribution of a region to innovation output? The usual approaches implicitly assume that higher innovation outputs per inhabitant, employee, or R&D employee can be assigned to a region. We argue that more insights are gained if we distinguish between various mechanisms that influence the innovation activities in a region. Different analyses need to be conducted, using different variables and including different local factors. Furthermore, we see no justification for using a linear dependence of innovation activity on the number of inhabitants or employees as a benchmark for performance. We use a method that takes into account these arguments and apply it to the Electrics & Electronics industry in Germany. |
| Subjects: | | Regional innovation performance regional innovativeness non-parametric performance analysis measurement of regional innovativeness |
| JEL: | | R11 R15 O31 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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