Industrial innovation: Direct evidence from a cluster-oriented policy
Industrial innovation: Direct evidence from a cluster-oriented policy
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DOI：
10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2010.03.007
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Kipar, Stefan
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作者：
Falck, Oliver;Heblich, Stephan;Kipar, Stefan
地方产业政策能否提高地方企业的竞争力？针对特定产业的以利润为导向的政策正是以这样的目标为目标，尽管学术界对这些政策存在争议，但这些政策在政治家中非常受欢迎。因此，发现面向集群的政策是否有效似乎是有用的。本文对德国巴伐利亚州1999年出台的集群导向政策进行了评价。该政策的目标是通过促进合作来促进创新和区域竞争力。使用差异中差异的差异估计，我们发现，对于不同的创新措施，集群导向的政策增加了4.6至5.7个百分点，成为目标行业的创新者的可能性。与此同时，目标行业企业的研发支出平均下降了19.4%，而获得外部技术诀窍、与公共科学机构合作以及合适的研发人员的可用性增加了。(C)2010 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
Can local industrial policies increase local firm competitiveness? Cluster-oriented policies targeted at selected industries have just such a goal and are very popular among politicians, despite the controversy surrounding these policies in academia. Thus, it would appear useful to discover if cluster-oriented policies are effective. This paper evaluates the cluster-oriented policy introduced in Bavaria, Germany, in 1999. The policy's goal was to foster innovation and regional competitiveness by stimulating cooperation. Using difference-in-difference-in-differences estimates, we find for different innovation measures that the cluster-oriented policy increased the likelihood of becoming an innovator in the target industries by 4.6 to 5.7 percentage points. At the same time, R&D expenditures decreased by 19.4% on average for firms in target industries, while access to external know-how, cooperation with public scientific institutes, and the availability of suitable R&D personnel increased. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.