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100 1 Kose, Seyit
245 10 Private and public sector R&D efforts, knowledge
spillovers and regional growth in Europe
300 240 p
500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-
06, Section: A, page: 2313
500 Adviser: Ronald L. Moomaw
502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2002
520 Scope and method of study. The primary purpose of this
research is to empirically analyze the influence of R&D
personnel employed in the business enterprise sector and
in the government sector, and associated knowledge
spillovers, respectively, on the European regional growth
in labor productivity. A sample of 57 regions at the NUTS
2 level from three contiguous members of the EU (France,
Italy and Spain) is studied for the period between 1985--
95. Even though the issue has recently received a great
deal of attention, only a few empirical studies have
carefully specified the EU regional development process.
Therefore, in a different way than most of the earlier
empirical work, we spatially specify Romer's (1990) growth
model in the light of Caniels (2000) and Magrini (1997)
for EU regional development. Hence, we can interpret the
empirical findings along with the mainstream economic
growth theory, which is ignored in much of the earlier
empirical literature
520 Findings and conclusions. From various regressions, it is
found that both private and government sector R&D efforts
improve regional labor productivity growth between 1--2
percent. Cross-regional knowledge spillovers from private
sector R&D efforts of all other regions increase regional
labor productivity growth about 5 percent, whereas those
from government sector R&D efforts of all other regions
increase it by about 2.3 percent. Cross-regional knowledge
spillovers from private sector R&D gap increase regional
labor productivity growth about 2 percent, while those
from government sector R&D gap increase it by about 1.8
percent. Private sector R&D and associated spillovers are
found to significantly improve (by over 1 percent) the
productivity growth of both the Italian regions and the
Spanish regions relative to French regions. However,
government sector R&D and associated spillovers do not
have a significant differential impact on the productivity
growth of countries
590 School code: 0664
590 DDC
650 4 Economics, General
690 0501
710 20 Oklahoma State University
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