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Public policy, locational choice and the innovation capability of high-tech firms: A comparison between Israel and Ireland

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Amnon Frenkel
Daniel Shefer
Stephen Roper

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Using survey data from Irish and Israeli firms we examine the influence of public policy on the characteristics, location and innovation capability of high-tech firms. The innovation activities of Israeli firms in Israel are found to be much more locationally sensitive than that of Irish companies. Regional policy incentives, involving the dispersal of high-tech firms to peripheral areas of Ireland are therefore likely to have had little negative effect on firms' innovation capabilities. In Israel, however, inducing highly R&D intensive firms to locate away from the main metropolitan areas may be counter-productive. Copyright Regional Science Association International (RSAI) Urbana, USA 2003

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Volume (Year): 82 (2003)
Issue (Month): 2 (04)
Pages: 203-221
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Keywords: JEL classification: O18; Q38; R12; R58; Key words:Innovation; high-tech firm; location; R&; D; plant characteristics;

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