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26. The European Case: Are There Externalities from the National Toward the Regional R&D Systems That Enhance Their Efficiency?

Authors : Cristián Gutiérrez Rojas, Thomas Baumert

Published in: Advances in Quantitative Economic Research

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The present chapter studies the externality flows from the national to the regional R&D systems in Europe, analyzing to which degree—if at all—they improve the latter’s efficiency. For this purpose, we combine factorial, regression, and cluster analysis with a two-stage data envelopment analysis on a sample of 129 regions from 2000 to 2010. The results obtained confirm the existence of asymmetric spillovers between both system levels and that they indeed have a statistically significant impact on regional efficiency.

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As might be observed, we now prefer the expression “R&D system”—which we consider more acurate to the Schumpetarian conception of a “spontaneous” innovation—to that of “Innovation system” which we believe may induce to consider Innovation, wrongly, as a sistematic process (see for details Gutiérrez & Baumert, 2019).

The values of each element of the index are standarized between 0 and 100 as to allow for their comparison.

The Kruskal-Wallis test was performed to corroborate the conformation of the three clusters, rejecting the null hypothesis of equality of means between the three groups at 99%.

Cf. Baumert and Gutiérrez (2020).

Calculations were also made with 1 year and 2 years’ delay. However, they did not change any of the conclusions of the study.

Cf. the results presented by Baumert (2021) when studying the regional R&D performance by their phase of entrance to the EU.

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Title: The European Case: Are There Externalities from the National Toward the Regional R&D Systems That Enhance Their Efficiency?
Authors: Cristián Gutiérrez Rojas
Thomas Baumert
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Advances in Quantitative Economic Research
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-98178-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-98179-2

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98179-2_26

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