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Do cooperative R&D subsidies stimulate regional innovation efficiency? Evidence from Germany
Broekel, Tom - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2010
The paper investigates the impact of R&D subsidies on regional innovation efficiency. Building on a rich panel data set covering 270 German labor market regions and four industries, it is particularly shown that subsidies for R&D cooperation are a suitable policy measure for stimulating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763404
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Labour market externalities and regional growth in Sweden: The importance of labour mobility between skill-related industries
Boschma, Ron; Eriksson, Rikard; Lindgren, Urban - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013
This study investigates the relationship between labour market externalities and regional growth based on real labour flows. In particular, we test for the importance of labour mobility across so-called skill-related industries. We make use of a sophisticated indicator that measures the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700001
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Regional Factors and Innovativeness - An Empirical Analysis of Four German Industries
Broekel, Tom; Brenner, Thomas - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2009
A growing body of work emphasizes the importance of regional factors for regional innovativeness. In this paper, about seventy variables approximating the social-economic characteristics of regions are aggregated to twelve regional factors. In four industry-specific set-ups their influence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558441
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The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography
Boschma, Ron; Martin, Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2010
This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to economic geography. We argue that the goal is not only to utilise the concepts and ideas from evolutionary economics (and evolutionary thinking more broadly) to help interpret and explain how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478245
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The importance of R&D subsidies and technological infrastructure for regional innovation performance - A conditional efficiency approach
Broekel, Tom; Schlump, Charlotte - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2009
The importance of R&D subsidies for innovation activities is highlighted by numerous firm-level studies. These approaches miss however the systematic regional character of innovation activities and potential firm-spanning effects of this policy measure. The literature on regional innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469278
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The Bright and Dark Side of Cooperation for Regional Innovation Performance
Broekel, Tom; Meder, Andreas - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008
Studies analyzing the importance of intra- and inter-regional cooperation for regional innovation performance are mainly of qualitative nature and focus strongly on the positive effects that high levels of cooperation can yield. For the case of the German labor market regions and the Electrics &...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005345946
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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry
Oort, Frank G. van; Stam, Erik - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2005
Although there is growing evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the formation and growth of firms, both … the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005345950
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Complexity Thinking and Evolutionary Economic Geography
Martin, Ron; Sunley, Peter - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2007
Thus far, most of the work towards the construction of an evolutionary economic geography has drawn upon a particular version of evolutionary economics, namely the Nelson-Winter framework, which blends Darwinian concepts and metaphors (especially variety, selection, novelty and inheritance) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005345960
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Labour mobility, related variety and the performance of plants: A Swedish study
Boschma, Ron; Eriksson, Rikard; Lindgren, Urban - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008
This paper analyses the impact of skill portfolios and labour mobility on plant performance by means of a unique database that connects attributes of individuals to features of plants for the whole Swedish economy. We found that a portfolio of related competences at the plant level increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133018
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From Average to the Frontier: A Nonparametric Performance Approach for Analyzing Externalities and Regions’ Innovativeness
Broekel, Tom - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008
Although a rich literature has emerged analyzing the impact of localization, urbanization, and Jacobs externalities on … of localization and urbanization externalities are found. In contrast, with the exception of the transport equipment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133020