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The High-Tech Offensive of the Free State of Bavaria

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  • Oliver Falck
  • Stefan Kipar

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In 1999 the Free State of Bavaria was the first German state to introduce a state-wide cluster policy, the High-Tech Offensive, which was aimed in particular at businesses in five areas of technology. This policy measure was aimed at strengthening the infrastructure and thus the cooperation among companies, between businesses and the research sector as well as between businesses and the finance sector to bolster the innovation activity of companies. Using a difference-in-difference approach and data from the Ifo Innovation Survey, this article shows that the Bavarian policy measure has had a positive effect on the innovation activity of businesses in Bavaria. Companies in one of the five technology areas in Bavaria boosted their propensity to innovate by 5.77 percentage points because of these policy measures.

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  • Oliver Falck & Stefan Kipar, 2010. "The High-Tech Offensive of the Free State of Bavaria," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 63(03), pages 21-26, February.
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    3. Oliver Falck & Stefan Kipar & Ludger Wößmann, 2011. "Innovationstätigkeit von Unternehmen : die Rolle von Qualifikationen, Kooperationen und Clusterpolitik," ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 38.
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    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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