Environmental Performance and Regional Innovation Spillovers

Innovation, regional knowledge spillovers and R&D cooperation

We investigate the impact of knowledge spillovers and R&D cooperation on innovation activities in three German regions. We begin by estimating the knowledge-production function in order to test for interregional difference with regard to the efficiency of innovation activities. In a second step, we analyze the contribution of spillovers from R&D effort of other private firms and of public resea...

Spillovers of Innovation Effects

The effects of process and product innovation are analyzed in a multisectoral framework. The effect of an innovation in any particular sector propagates throughout the entire economy. A simple measure for the spillover of innovation effects to the other sectors is developed. As a consequence, an alternative viewpoint is obtained for the interpretation of the elements of the Leontief inverse and...

Regional Innovation Systems: How to Assess Performance

Multinational growth, innovation strategies and technology spillovers

It will be argued that the nature and characteristics of international production are changing and new opportunities for technological spillovers to host economies are associated to this change. However the available evidence on the actual impact of the ongoing globalisation is shaky and contradictory. This seems to have led to a sort of deadlock in the current debate, which is much too often b...

Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company possibly benefits from incoming information on successful R&D conducted by other companies, a generally high probability of leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical study on the effects of outgoing and...