Deutsche Innovationsregionen

Recent developments in the regional policy have stressed the importance of regional networks. Now the definition of innovation regions, which reflect the knowledge spatial activities, is becoming relevant. The spatial econometric estimation of a production function, which is based on endegenous growth theory and innovation economics, yields out a sigificant regression coefficient for the knowledge spillovers. We use this parameter for computing a spillover-matrix, whose elements contain the spillovers between two regions. This similarity matrix is clustered with an agglomerative hierarchical method. If you assume, that innovation regions are smaller than federal states, a 22-cluster-solution would be appropriate.