Measuring regional innovativeness: a methodological discussion and an application to one German industry

Arbeitspapier

The regional or national innovation performance has been repeatedly measured in the literature; but it has so far not been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is the contribution of a region to innovation output? The usual approaches implicitly assume that higher innovation outputs per inhabitant, employee, or R&D employee can be assigned to a region. We argue that more insights are gained if we distinguish between various mechanisms that influence the innovation activities in a region. Different analyses need to be conducted, using different variables and including different local factors. Furthermore, we see no justification for using a linear dependence of innovation activity on the number of inhabitants or employees as a benchmark for performance. We use a method that takes into account these arguments and apply it to the Electrics & Electronics industry in Germany.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2007,065

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes ; General Regional Economics: Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Models ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
• Thema: Regional innovation performance ; regional innovativeness ; non-parametric performance analysis ; measurement of regional innovativeness ; Innovation ; Region ; Messung ; Elektroindustrie ; Theorie ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Broekel, Tom ; Brenner, Thomas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (wo): Jena
• (wann): 2007

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25632
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ