Laurent, Thibault and Moussa, Inès (2015) Indirect and feedback effects as measure of knowledge spillovers in French regions. Applied Economics Letters, vol. 22 (n° 7). pp. 511-514.

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to provide a precise measure of the role of geographical proximity in the innovation process on the French metropolitan NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) 3 regions over the period 1995 to 2008. We study the relationship between patents applications and internal R&D, and we propose a spatial decomposition coefficient of the independent variables to measure more explicitly the spatial extent of knowledge spillovers (LeSage and Pace, 2009). Our estimation result shows that the internal R&D expenditures have a positive direct and indirect effect on the patents applications, but only for the regions with a strong innovation activity. For these regions, the spillover effect is observed in the first-order neighbourhood, but the spatial lag coefficient is not significant enough to get a positive feedback effect.

Item Type: Article
Language: English
Date: 2015
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Knowledge spillovers, spatial econometrics, innovation, indirect effect
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 31 May 2016 13:41
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2021 13:36
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:30464
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21921
View Item