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.
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 |
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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 |