PFIRRMANN 0. (1995) Path analysis and regional development: factors affecting R & D in West German small and medium sized firms, Reg. Studies 29, 605-618. Recent empirical analyses have emphasized the importance of a local technological environment for attracting industrial research and development (R&D) or providing spill-over effects from the convergence of industrial and university R& D. Despite the importance of the relationship between technological innovation and regional development, serious questions still remain unanswered. This paper will attempt to assess on a regional level the factors which affect the R & D efforts of small and medium sized firms. A path model with latent variables for West German planning regions will be developed includlng regional and structural factors which are assumed to affect the R & D efforts of small and medium sized firms. The approach of investigation is based on the partial least squares estimation method. This method was chosen to draw a more complex picture of the innovating firms' regonal environment and also because of the possibility of splitting empirical findings into their causal relationships.
R & DSmall and medium sized firms Endogenous development Path analysis PFIRRMANN 0. (1995) Analyse par la mtthode du chemin et amtnagement du territoire: les facteurs qui influent sur la R et D dans les P M E allemandes, Reg. Studies 29,605-618. Des analyses empiriques rtcentes ont soulignt l'importance d'un environnement local technologique afin de stduire la recherche-developpement (R et D) industrielle ou bien pour assurer des retombtes dues i la synergie entre la R et D industrielle et universitaire. En dtpit de l'importance du rapport enre l'innovation technologique et l'amtnagement du territoire, des questions fondamentales restent sans rtponse. Cet article cherche i tvaluer sur le plan regional les facteurs qui influent sur les efforts de R et D des PME. U n modkle de la mtthode du chemin comportant des variables cachtes relatives aux zones d'ttudes et d'amtnagement du territoire en Allemagne de l'Ouest sera construit incluant des facteurs rtgionaux et structurels censts avoir une incidence sur les efforts de R et D des PME. La facon employte est celle de la mtthode des moindres carrts partielle. Cette mtthode a t t t choisie pour dessiner une image plus complexe de l'environnement rtgional de l'entreprise innovatrice et i cause de la possibilitt de diviser les rtsultats empiriques en fonction de leurs relations causales.
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