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High Technology Employment and Knowledge Spillovers

In: The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy

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  • Zoltan J. Acs

    (University of Baltimore)

  • Felix R. FitzRoy

    (University of St. Andrews)

  • Ian Smith

    (University of St. Andrews)

Abstract

Informal, as well as econometric evidence, suggests there is a close association between high technology employment and major research universities in the United States (Acs 2002). Typically cited are the links between Stanford University and Silicon Valley or MIT and Route 128. Such a nexus has scarcely emerged in Europe except in the form of a few fledgling research parks such as Cambridge, England (Lumme et al. 1993; Cooke and Simmie 2002), and the capitol region of Norway (Wiig-Aslesen, this volume). Formal tests conducted by Jaffe (1989) provide econometric evidence for the real effects of academic research in terms of its spillover to corporate patenting activity. In addition, papers by Jaffe, Trajtenberg, and Henderson (1993), and Almeida and Kogut (1997) demonstrate the significant degree of localisation of these knowledge externalities with respect to patent citations.

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  • Zoltan J. Acs & Felix R. FitzRoy & Ian Smith, 2002. "High Technology Employment and Knowledge Spillovers," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Zoltan J. Acs & Henri L. F. Groot & Peter Nijkamp (ed.), The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy, chapter 9, pages 155-172, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-540-24823-1_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24823-1_9
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    1. Masurel, E. & Nijkamp, P., 2009. "Bridging the gap between institutions of higher education and small and medium-size enterprises," Serie Research Memoranda 0037, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.

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