How does industry specialization affect the efficiency of regional innovation systems?

Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor

doi:10.1007/s00168-009-0292-9

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“…Specifically, we find that industry concentration in Eastern German regions beyond a certain maximum level seems to decrease regional innovative performance. This result reinforces prior research, where such an inverse-U relationship has been detected (Folta, Cooper and Baik 2006;Fritsch and Slavtchev 2009). In other words, if manufacturing industries in Eastern Germany exhibit an exceedingly high degree of concentration in a specific region, this has negative effects on the innovative performance of that region.…”

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“…industry concentration) are present only in the service sector, but not for manufacturing industries. A recent study by Fritsch & Slavtchev (2009) relates industry concentration to the efficiency of regional innovation systems (measured by the number of disclosed patent applications per Planning Region). The authors find an inverse-U relationship, which means regional industry concentration beyond a maximum seems to lower regional innovative performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Industry concentration and regional innovative performance: empirical evidence for Eastern Germany

Hornych

Schwartz

2009

Post-Communist Economies

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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 Industry Concentration and Regional Innovative Performance -Empirical Evidence for Eastern GermanyAbstractRegarding technological innovativeness, the transformed economy of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) clearly lags behind the Western part of the country. To face this weakness, a broad mixture of policy measures was carried out in recent years. Particular attention is drawn to the development of industry concentrations and economic 'clusters'. However, little is known about the effectiveness of these policy measures regarding how industry concentrations in fact promote innovative performance in Eastern Germany. The present study tries to fill this gap by analyzing the relationship between industry concentration in Eastern Germany and regional innovative performance. Our empirical analysis is based upon the number of patent applications of 22 manufacturing industries in 22 Eastern German planning regions. The estimated regression models indicate an inverted U-shaped relationship between the degree of industry concentration and innovative performance. An exceedingly high degree of industry concentration in one region hampers regional innovative output. We discuss policy implications of our findings and give recommendations for future refinement of 'cluster'-supporting policy schemes in Eastern Germany. Keywords

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Industry concentration and regional innovative performance: empirical evidence for Eastern Germany

Hornych

Schwartz

2009

Post-Communist Economies

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“…Inter-and transdisciplinary research settings anchor research projects and support the implementation of results. This has also been confirmed for applied research versus basic research projects (Fritsch and Slavtchev 2010). Overall the contribution of research to RTPS can be seen in the shaping of public opinion and discourse, scientific substantiation of political strategies, expert know how, and concrete scientific contributions to process or product innovations (e. g. in the field of renewables).…”

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The role of higher education institutions in regional transition paths towards sustainability

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Pflitsch

2017

Rev Reg Res

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The present paper investigates the role of the located Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the transformation towards sustainability of the city of Linz as well as the region of Upper Austria. We argue that HEIs have the potential to spur a regional transition towards sustainability via the channels of teaching, research and outreach. We furthermore take into account that organisational-and field-level drivers influence the role of HEIs within the regional transition paths towards sustainability (RTPS). We chose an explorative research design in order to give a realistic picture of the potentials and limitations of HEIs' involvement in regional transitions to sustainability. The role of the five HEIs located in the city of Linz is studied through in-depth expert interviews and a comprehensive document analysis. The investigation reveals that there is no contribution of HEIs as a whole to RTPS, but that the impact is dependent on individual highly engaged "frontrunners" enacting change and at the same time on leadership from the university management. Moreover, regulative drivers at the field-level and normative as well as cognitive drivers at the organisational-level affect HEIs' contribution.

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“…As states belong in the same country and, therefore, share common institutions, among other things, an interesting issue that arises is whether small institutional and networking differences across regions have different innovation implications. 29 A related study of Fritsch and Slavtchev (2010) has also analyzed the relationship between the specialization of a region in a panel of german industries and the efficiency of the region in generating new knowledge. Externalities resulting from high R&D intensity of the local private sector as well as knowledge from local public research institutions are identified to positively influence regional innovation efficiency.…”

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Production of output and ideas: efficiency and growth patterns in the United States

2017

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This paper examines efficiency and growth patterns in the production of output and ideas in the US. We employ frontier techniques and jointly estimate the production of output and the production of ideas. We find states to be particularly efficient in the use of their inputs in the production of output process, whereas there is more waste in the use of innovation resources to produce new knowledge. Our results do not lend support to the common perception that richer (more innovative) states are more efficient than less richer (less innovative) states for every dollar spent. Furthermore, an efficient in producing knowledge state is not necessarily efficient in producing goods and services. Finally, a consistent finding is that input accumulation is an important source of growth both for output and for the knowledge.

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How does industry specialization affect the efficiency of regional innovation systems?

Cited by 82 publications

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Industry concentration and regional innovative performance: empirical evidence for Eastern Germany

Industry concentration and regional innovative performance: empirical evidence for Eastern Germany

The role of higher education institutions in regional transition paths towards sustainability

Production of output and ideas: efficiency and growth patterns in the United States

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