Explaining the variation in the empirical estimates of academic knowledge spillovers
Innovation ; Knowledge ; Knowledge transfer ; Production fonction ; Region ; Regional analysis ; Regression analysis ; Spillover
The paper presents a meta-regression analysis of the empirical studies exploring the relationship between academic knowledge spillovers and regional innovation. The results of the literature are found to depend on country effects, the level
Geographic and network neighbors : spillover effects of telecommunications infrastructure
The paper tests for spatial spillover effects of state-level telecommunications infrastructure investment on state output, using panel data for 48 U.S. states from 1970 to 1997. Findings indicate that a state benefits from its own telecommunications
infrastructure, but telecommunications investment by other states has a negative impact on its output growth path, and proximity amplifies this negative spillover effect.
Spatial knowledge spillovers and university research : evidence from Austria
The paper provides some evidence on the importance of geographically mediated knowledge production in high-technology industries in Austria. Spillovers occur because knowledge created by universities has some of the characteristics of public goods
spillovers that transcend the spatial scale of political districts.
Econometry ; Entrepreneurship ; Firm ; Germany ; Knowledge ; Model ; Regional development ; Spatial dependence ; Spillover
This article analyses the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. Positive knowledge spillover effects via entrepreneurship and competitiveness – improving the effects of entrepreneurship
capital within a certain region as well as between regions – are found. However, the significance of the spatial spillover effects largely depends on the choice of the weight matrix. This is seen as evidence that positive and negative spatial spillover
Knowledge spillovers, absorptive capacity, and skill intensity of Chilean manufacturing plants
Chile ; Employment ; Industrial establishment ; Industry ; Knowledge ; Labour productivity ; Production fonction ; Skilled labour ; Spillover
In this study, the AA. identify a mechanism through which knowledge spillovers occur among plants in the Chilean manufacturing industry. A plant-level production function is estimated with the absorptive-capacity hypothesis, that is, employment
of skilled workers is a key channel through which knowledge is transmitted across plants. Results show that a plant's productivity from spillovers increases with its skill intensity, which is measured by the share of skilled workers in total employment.
Technological interdependence and regional growth in Europe : proximity and synergy in knowledge spillovers
Economic growth ; Europe ; European Union ; Knowledge spillovers ; Learning process ; Measurement ; Model ; Proximity ; Regional economy
Knowledge spillovers are subject to distance decay effects. The main aim is to provide a theoretical framework and empirical evidence on the role played by other kinds of proximities in explaining productivity growth. A sample of EU regions
in the period 1990-2004 is used. There is an evidence of a positive role of social and relational proximities as important channels of knowledge spillovers. When simultaneously present, different kinds of proximities generate synergic effects on growth.
Okun’s law and urban spillovers in US unemployment
Employment ; Labour market ; Scale ; Spatial dependence ; Spillover ; Unemployment ; United States of America
Using data for 2002–2010 from 358 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), the A estimate Okun’s law which accounts for national shocks and spatial spillovers in urban areas. Our scale of measurement is changed to the state level, allowing us
Quantifying knowledge spillovers using spatial econometric models
Agglomeration ; Externalities ; France ; Industrial branch ; Industry ; Knowledge ; Patent ; Research and development ; Spatial differentiation ; Specialization ; Spillover