Mewes, Lars; Broekel, Tom - In: The Annals of Regional Science 65 (2020) 1, pp. 221-252
form of R&D subsidies intervenes in the process of regional diversification. We focus on R&D subsidies and assess whether … diversification. To investigate the role of R&D policy in the process of regional technological diversification, we link information … on R&D subsidies with patent data and analyze the diversification of 141 German labor-market regions into new technology …