Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25592 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2007,018
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new ideas may be born by the exchange of heterogeneous and complementary knowledge between actors, which belong to different industries (Jacobs’ externalities). We test the impact of both MAR as well as Jacobs’ externalities on innovative performance at the regional level. The results suggest an inverted u-shaped relationship between regional specialization in certain industries and innovative performance. Further key determinants of the regional innovative performance are private sector R&D and university-industry collaboration.
Subjects: 
Innovation
technical efficiency
patents
agglomeration concentration, specialization, diversity
regional analysis
JEL: 
O31
O18
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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