Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter? / Sergey Lychagin, Joris Pinkse, Margaret E. Slade, John Van Reenen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lychagin, Sergey.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Pinkse, Joris.

Slade, Margaret E.

Van Reenen, John.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16188.

NBER working paper series no. w16188

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Spillovers in Space

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.

Summary:

We simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technology and product-market proximity. To do this, we construct a new measure of geographic proximity that is based on the distribution of a firm's inventor locations rather than its headquarters, and we report both parametric and semiparametric estimates of our geographic- distance functions. We find that: i) Geographic space matters even after conditioning on horizontal and technological spillovers; ii) Technological proximity matters; iii) Product-market proximity is less important; iv) Locations of researchers are more important than headquarters but both have explanatory power; and v) Geographic markets are very local.

Notes:

Print version record

July 2010.