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Joint R and D subsidies, related variety, and regional innovation.
Broekel, Tom; Brachert, Matthias; Duschl, Matthias; … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2015
Subsidies for R and D are an important tool of public R and D policy, which motivates extensive scientific analyses and evaluations. The paper adds to this literature by arguing that the effects of R and D subsidies go beyond the extension of organizations’ monetary resources invested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148606
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Agglomeration, Congestion, and Regional Unemployment Disparities
Zierahn, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities of unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities of regional goods markets endogenously arise but usually assume full employment. This paper discusses regional unemployment disparities by introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008872263
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Testing for Clustering of Industries - Evidence from micro geographic data
Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
We present a new statistical method that describes the localization patterns of industries in a continuous space. The proposed method does not divide space into subunits whereby it is not affected by the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP). Our method fulfils all five criteria for a spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143906
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Co-operation over Distance? The Spatial Dimension of Inter-organisational Innovation Collaboration
Dettmann, Anja; Proff, Sidonia von; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
In the literature there is a controversy about the relevance of the spatial dimension in innovation collaboration. We examine the link between the spatial composition of group members and group characteristics which are important for performing innovation projects. To this end, we introduce a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693272
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Factors explaining the spatial agglomeration of the Creative Class. Empirical evidence for German artists
Alfken, Christoph; Broekel, Tom; Sternberg, Rolf - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the relative importance of economic and amenity-related location factors for attracting talents or members of the creative class. While Florida highlights the role of amenities, openness, and tolerance, others instead emphasize the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693273
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Detecting Spatial Clustering Using a Firm-Level Index
Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
We present a new statistical method that detects industrial clusters at a firm level. The proposed method does not divide space into subunits whereby it is not affected by the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP). Our metric differs both in its calculation and interpretation from existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861806
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The innovation efficiency of German regions - a shared-input DEA approach
Broekel, Tom; Rogge, Nicky; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
The paper contributes to the debate on how to measure regions’ innovation performance. On the basis of the concept of regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global measures. We argue for the use of a robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141156
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Optimizing Distance-Based Methods for Big Data Analysis
Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
Distance-based methods for measuring spatial concentration such as the Duranton-Overman index undergo an increasing popularity in the spatial econometrics community. However, a limiting factor for their usage is their computational complexity since both their memory requirements and running-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141157
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The organizational and regional determinants of inter-regional collaborations – Academic inventors as bridging agents
Dornbusch, Friedrich; Proff, Sidonia von; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
Collaboration over distance is difficult to maintain in innovation projects which require a great deal of regional collaboration. However, patent documents reveal that a number of inventor teams are able to overcome long distances. Earlier literature started to investigate factors, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141160
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Evolving localization patterns of company foundations - Evidence from the German MST-industry
Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas; Wendel, Martin - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
their spatial proximity to similar firms, patent owner, related industries and research institutions and are benchmarked … with the overall distribution of company foundations in Germany. We demonstrate that spatial proximity has a clear … influence on where new companies are founded. Furthermore, the influence of proximity to different agents is not constant over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141162