Knowledge Creation and Regional Spillovers: Empirical Evidence from Germany

• Authors: Tinatin Akhvlediani , Andrzej Cieślik

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines the effects of intra- and inter-regional knowledge spillovers on innovative activities in German states using the augmented Griliches-Jaffe knowledge production function. The “Harris market potential” type index is calculated to proxy for inter-regional knowledge transfers of two types: industrial knowledge transfers generated from the business enterprise sector and academic spillovers generated from universities across all German states. The model also includes the concentration of high-tech enterprises, in order to capture the agglomeration effect in the local economy. The estimation results reveal that not only do local private and university research efforts have a positive and significant effect on local innovative activities, but there are also important interregional knowledge spillovers across the German regions.

Keywords

EN

Augmented Griliches-Jaffe knowledge production function; innovation; knowledge spillovers; regions; Germany

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 184-189

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Tinatin Akhvlediani

• Department of Economics, College of Europe, Belgium

author

Andrzej Cieślik

• Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/mgrsd-2017-0033

Biblioteka Nauki

2108263