R&D and the agglomeration of industries

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This paper discusses a model of the New Economic Geography, in which the seminal core-periphery model of Krugman (1991) is extended by endogenous research activities. Beyond the common anonymous consideration of R&D expenditures within fixed costs, this model introduces vertical product differentiation, which requires services provided by an additional R&D sector. In the context of international factor mobility, the destabilizing effects of a mobile scientific workforce are analyzed. In combination with a welfare analysis and a consideration of R&D promoting policy instruments and their spatial implications, this paper makes a contribution to the so-called brain drain debate.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 83

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Trade: Forecasting and Simulation
• Subject: R&D ; new economic geography ; vertical differentiation ; Industrielle Forschung ; Unternehmensdienstleistung ; Produktdifferenzierung ; Kern-Peripherie-Beziehung ; Brain Drain ; Regionale Konzentration ; Neue ökonomische Geographie ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kranich, Jan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
• (where): Lüneburg
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/28199
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET