Do firms in clusters invest in R&D more intensively? Theory and evidence from multi-country data

Research Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1159-1171

  Lee, Chang Yang ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Business School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cluster; Geographical proximity; Localized knowledge spillovers; Natural excludability; R D intensity

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF ASYMMETRY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL PROXIMITY; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; LOCALIZED KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; MARKET MECHANISMS; NATURAL EXCLUDABILITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; WORLD BANK;

EID: 67650127137     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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