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1. Measuring the Knowledge Base of an Economy in terms of Triple-Helix Relations among 'Technology, Organization, and Territory'

Author

Leydesdorff, Loet, Dolfsma, Wilfred, and van der Panne, Gerben

Subjects
Physics - Physics and Society
Abstract

Can the knowledge base of an economy be measured? In this study, we combine the perspective of regional economics on the interrelationships among technology, organization, and territory with the triple-helix model, and offer the mutual information in three dimensions as an indicator of the configuration. When this probabilistic entropy is negative, the configuration reduces the uncertainty that prevails at the systems level. Data about more than a million Dutch companies are used for testing the indicator. The data contain postal codes (geography), sector codes (proxy for technology), and firm sizes in terms of number of employees (proxy for organization). The configurations are mapped at three levels: national (NUTS-1), provincial (NUTS-2), and regional (NUTS-3). The levels are cross-tabled with the knowledge-intensive sectors and services. The results suggest that medium-tech sectors contribute to the knowledge base of an economy more than high-tech ones. Knowledge-intensive services have an uncoupling effect, but less so at the high-tech end of these services.

Published
2009

8. On the Marshall-Jacobs controversy: it takes two to tango.

Author

van der Panne, Gerben and van Beers, Cees

Subjects
EXTERNALITIES, DIFFUSION of innovations, DIVERSIFIED companies, EXPERTISE, INDUSTRIAL laws & legislation
Abstract

The literature is inconclusive as to whether Marshallian specialization or Jacobian diversification externalities favor regional innovativeness. The specialization argument poses that regional specialization towards a particular industry improves innovativeness in that industry. Regional specialization allows for knowledge to spill over among similar firms. By contrast, the diversification thesis asserts that knowledge spills over between firms in different industries, causing diversified production structures to be more innovative. Building on an original database, we address this controversy for the Netherlands. We thereby advance on the literature by providing a two-level approach, at the region level and the firm level. At the regional level, we compare specialized with diversified regions on numbers of accommodated innovators. At the firm level, we establish causalities between externalities and degree of innovativeness. The results suggest Marshallian externalities: specialized regions accommodate increased numbers of innovating firms and, consistently, incumbent firms' innovativeness increases with regional specialization. Once the product has been launched, innovators in diversified Jacobian regions prove more successful in commercial terms than innovators in specialized Marshallian regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2006
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14. Who Was Right? Kuznets in 1930 or Schumpeter in 1939?

Author

Kleinknecht, Alfred and Van Der Panne, Gerben

Subjects
*ECONOMETRICS, *TIME series analysis, *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations, *ECONOMIC history, *HISTORICAL analysis
Abstract

This paper gives a brief historical account of the discussion on innovations clustering, reviewing Kuznet's criticism on Schumpeter's cluster-of-innovation hypothesis. Thereafter engages into econometric analyses of time series of major innovations that were produced by various authors. We conclude that much is to be said in favour of a rehabilitation of Schumpeter's (1939) cluster-of-innovation hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2006

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