Generalized trust and regional innovation activity

Christopher-Johannes Schild

For a cross-section of 123 European regions, we find evidence for a positive effect of generalized trust on regional innovation activity. We aim to identify causal effects by using instrumental variables from climate and soil data, drawing from recent literature on the effects of climate on historic trust levels. The popular explanation for spatial clustering of innovation by "interregional knowledge spillovers" is also tested. It is found that spatial clustering of innovation activity can be better explained by a positive influence of trust on innovation and spatial clustering of trust.

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Year of publication:	2012 ; This version: August 2013
Authors:	Schild, Christopher-Johannes
Publisher:	Erlangen : Univ., Inst. für Wirtschaftspolitik und Quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung
Subject:	Social Capital \| Trust \| Innovation \| Regional Economics \| Europe \| Sozialkapital \| Social capital \| Vertrauen \| Confidence \| Regionalentwicklung \| Regional development \| Europa \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (28 S.) graph. Darst., Kt.
Series:	IWQW discussion paper series. - Erlangen : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1867-6707, ZDB-ID 2523749-4. - Vol. 02/2012
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/82640 [Handle]
Classification:	O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Z13 - Social Norms and Social Capital
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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