Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191646 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers on Innovation and Space No. 01.18
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Geography, Marburg
Abstract: 
This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research on regional technological progress and economic growth. We adopt a system approach and investigate the effects on all regional input factors and output by means of a flexible spatial panel VAR (SpPVAR) model. This allows us to deal with the evolutionary nature of regional dynamic processes. We further extend the existing empirical literature on the role of publicly funded research for economic development by differentiating between public research activities conducted by universities, technical colleges (Fachhochschulen) and non-university research institutes. The empirical results show that an increase in (public) third-party funds to technical colleges leads to positive effects on regional investment and employment rates as well as the human capital stock. We also find a positive link between the publication rate of non-university research institutes and regional investment and employment rates. Furthermore, an overall increase in combined public third-party funding of universities and technical colleges affects regional patent activities, the employment rate and output positively.
Subjects: 
regional economic growth
publicly funded research
production function
factor inputs
multiple equation (SpPVAR) models
impulse-response functions
JEL: 
C33
I23
I25
R11
O38
O47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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