Cluster‐Based Technology Policy—The German Experience

Dohse, Dirk

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“…First, it is in Eastern Germany, where additional clusterbased policies are adopted, with respect to Western Länder. Among them, InnoRegio and Innovative Regional Growth Poles are significant cluster-based programs set by the Federal Government in support of Eastern regions to favor regional convergence (Dohse, 2007). Second, the availability of a new dataset (see section 3 for a detail of the database used) on the firms' innovative activity allows a quantitative analysis of the topic.…”

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“…This trend characterizes several European countries, and it is particularly evident in Germany. Indeed, since the middle 1980s and early 1990s, there has been a shift in the focus of German innovation policy, from a firm or sectoral approach towards the promotion of networks of innovative activities and cooperation between firms, research centers and development agencies (Dohse, 2007). In the light of the growing relevance and financial support that cluster-based policies are receiving, both at federal and state (Länder) level, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of whether social networks are effectively responsible for the increase of innovative performance.…”

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Networks and Innovation: The Role of Social Assets in Explaining Firms' Innovative Capacity

Cantner

Conti

Meder

2010

European Planning Studies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Networks and innovation: the role of social assets in explaining firms' innovative capacityUwe Cantner*, Elisa Conti** and Andreas Meder*** Abstract. The claim of a positive association between a firm's social assets and its innovative capacity is a widely debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany, increasingly directed to cluster formation. In the light of the growing attention and financial efforts that cluster-based innovation policies are receiving, it is worth answering two main questions. First, are firms with a relatively high level of social capital likely to be more innovative? Second, do companies pursuing innovation in partnership innovate more? This paper empirically answers these questions by exploring a cross-sectoral sample of 248 firms based in the Jena region. On the one hand, the extent to which a firm is integrated in its community life does not contribute to an explanation of its innovative performance. On the other hand, directed cooperation with the specific goal of innovating shows a positive impact on innovative performance. However, the correlation between the extent of the network of co-innovators and firms' innovative capacity presents an inverted U-shaped relation: there is a threshold in the number of co-innovators justified by the costs of innovating by interacting. A policy lesson can be drawn from these findings: cluster-based policies are to be treated with caution as firms face costs of networking and not merely benefits.

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Networks and Innovation: The Role of Social Assets in Explaining Firms' Innovative Capacity

Cantner

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Meder

2010

European Planning Studies

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“…The starting point of this change is typically attributed to the BioRegio contest launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in 1997 (Eickelpasch and Fritsch 2005;Dohse 2007). BioRegio's objective was to enhance the global competitiveness of the German biotechnology research and industry.…”

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Regional effects of university funding: Excellence at the cost of regional disparity?

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We investigate regional repercussions of the recent shift toward focusing academic excellence in German science policy. We find that the regional concentration of merit-based public research funding has increased since the late 1990s. However, it is challenging to identify the characteristics of winning and losing regions. There is some evidence indicative of advantages for regions with larger overall university size. In contrast, our results do not suggest that more urbanized regions, or regions with stronger private-sector R&D activity, benefit disproportionately from the policy shift.

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“…Innovations as an output of learning and knowledge creation processes are regarded as a fundamental element of firms' competitiveness strategies in the current era of globalisation (e.g. Asheim and Coenen, 2005;Dohse, 2007;Tödtling and Trippl, 2005;Waxell and Malmberg, 2007). There are several traditional factors which influence learning and knowledge creation, including investments in basic R&D inputs and R&D institutional framework (Crescenzi, Rodríguez-Pose and Storper, 2007).…”

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Cluster‐Based Technology Policy—The German Experience

Cited by 55 publications

References 42 publications

Networks and Innovation: The Role of Social Assets in Explaining Firms' Innovative Capacity

Networks and Innovation: The Role of Social Assets in Explaining Firms' Innovative Capacity

Regional effects of university funding: Excellence at the cost of regional disparity?

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