Science and Technology Parks (STPs) are one of the most important regional innovation policy initiatives. Previous studies show that location in a Park promotes cooperation for innovation but have not investigated if they help to achieve better results from cooperation. We extend previous literature by analyzing how STPs influence the results of cooperation of Park firms and how this influence is channelled. We rely on a much larger sample of firms and STPs than previous studies and account for selection bias and endogeneity when these problems arise.Results show that location in a STP increases the likelihood of cooperation for innovation and the intangible results from cooperation with the main innovation partner, mainly due to the higher diversity of the relationship.
Science and Technology Parks (STP) are one of the most important and extensive innovation policy initiatives introduced in recent years. This work evaluates the impact of STP on firm product innovation in the Spanish context. Spain is less developed than most of the advanced countries, and regional and national governments are prioritizing STP initiatives. The large firm sample for our study is from the Spanish Technological Innovation Survey, provided by the National Statistical Institute. We focus on average treatment effects for firms located in 22 Spanish STP. Our results show that Spanish STP have a strong and positive impact on the probability and amount of product innovation achieved by STP located firms. These results hold for different assumptions about the mechanisms underlying location in a STP.
The aim of this work is to analyse the heterogeneous effect of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) on firms' innovation outcomes, contingent on firms' size and innovation effort. Despite the worldwide diffusion of STPs and the increasing literature aimed at analyzing their effect on tenants' performance, empirical evidence on the heterogeneous effect of STPs location on different firms is very scarce. We use information for a representative sample of 39,722 Spanish firms, 653 of them located on 22 of the 25 official Spanish STP. Results show, on the one hand, that firm size is negatively related to an STP location effect and, on the other, that only a small amount of internal innovation effort is required to achieve a very high return from park location.However, firms without innovation efforts do not benefit from a park location. Finally, as internal innovation efforts increase, the park effect reduces, but is still at a high level.
Introducción. La Altillanura colombiana atraviesa por un proceso de transformación, marcado por la expansión de su frontera agrícola. En la región, se está implementando una agenda de investigación que busca desarrollar y validar tecnologías promisorias para el mejoramiento de la productividad y la sostenibilidad de los sistemas de producción agropecuarios. La evaluación económica juega un papel importante en priorizar actividades, asignar recursos y guiar la investigación agrícola hacia objetivos de desarrollo rural. Objetivo. El objetivo de este trabajo fue implementar una evaluación económica ex-ante para estimar los resultados e impactos potenciales de la nueva línea promisoria de arroz L23 desarrollada para la Altillanura colombiana. Materiales y métodos. El impacto se midió en el genotipo de arroz L23, desarrollado en colaboración por la Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA) y el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), para la Altillanura colombiana. La evaluación ex-ante efectuada combinó un análisis de presupuestos parciales con información de pruebas experimentales y un modelo de excedentes económicos. Resultados. Los dos enfoques metodológicos fueron consistentes y mostraron que con la adopción del genotipo L23, en al menos 29,7 %, se podría conseguir una rentabilidad del 17,1 % para los productores de arroz de la Altillanura, debido al aumento esperado del rendimiento en el cultivo. Sin embargo, un análisis de sensibilidad de los supuestos, alerta que un bajo nivel potencial de adopción junto a cambios no significativos en rendimiento convertiría la investigación y desarrollo del nuevo genotipo en no factible a nivel económico. Conclusión. Para que la investigación, desarrollo e introducción del genotipo de arroz L23 sea rentable, se requiere un proceso de diseminación que permita la reproducción de la semilla y facilite el acceso a los productores, para que así puedan alcanzar mayores niveles de adopción.
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