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Cluster and Local Science-Industry Collaborations: Evidence from a Place-based Innovation Policy

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  • Aurelien Quignon

    (ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine)

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Place-based cluster policies have been widely adopted to foster regional innovation by promoting R&D collaborations. While previous research highlights the behavioral additionality of these policies, evidence regarding their effectiveness in fostering science-industry (S-I) collaborations remains limited. This paper examines the impact of the establishment of the French Competitive Cluster Program in 2005 on S-I collaborations. Leveraging a novel dataset of collaborative patents from 2000 to 2018, the results show that the cluster policy increases S-I collaborations within targeted regions. Additional analyses suggest that the effect is strongest in knowledge-intensive sectors and is associated with higher patent quality. Furthermore, the cluster policy induces a shift in innovative search strategies, with greater reliance on prior knowledge, suggesting a move toward incremental innovation. The findings contribute to the literature on the effectiveness of place-based cluster policies on science-industry collaborations and offer new insights into how to promote new collaborations through direct R&D subsidies and the diffusion of academic research into industrial applications.

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  • Aurelien Quignon, 2025. "Cluster and Local Science-Industry Collaborations: Evidence from a Place-based Innovation Policy," Working Papers hal-04701809, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-04701809
    DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4663785
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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